Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 Civil Society Organizations in China -- Traditional Rural Folk Organizations -- Rural Civil Society Organizations: Ideal Types -- Charity -- Public Affairs Management and Organization -- Folk Religious Organizations -- The Influence of Confucian Ideology on the Civil Society Organizations -- The Weakening of the Square Class or Rural Elites -- Clans and Networks -- Tradition and Continuity -- References -- 3 Transformations of the Civil Society Organizations -- Re-Induction of the Rural NGOs -- The Agglomeration of Social Capital -- More on Rural Social Organizations -- Wenzhen: A Clan Foundation -- Association for the Aged (AFA) -- Trust and Consanguinity in the Countryside -- Interests and Territorial Relations -- References -- 4 Civil Society Organizations and the State -- Traditional and New Rural Social Organizations Vis-À-Vis the State -- Responses to the State Intervention -- Recent Trends -- New Cooperatives -- Comparing Two Types of Social Organizations -- References -- 5 Local Power Structure in an Indian State -- New Panchayats and Politics in North Bengal -- Panchayats and the New Development Agenda -- Changing Local Politics -- Coalition Politics: The Hidden Alliances -- Women in Panchayats -- Factions -- New Elites -- Dalits and Local Power Structure -- Local Politics and the Minority Community -- Alternatives
in Development -- References -- 6 Civil Society Organizations in West Bengal -- NGOs in India in the Wake of Independence -- Historical Context: NGOs in Bengal -- Ngoization and Its Critiques -- Current Scenario -- References -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Glossary -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Glossary of Indian Words -- Appendix A -- Appendix B.