coalitions of elites capturing rents from the society while limiting access of ordinary people. A feature of natural states …, whether fragile, basic or mature, is that organisations in the society are unable to exist and function independently of the … any prospect of conceiving civil society independently of the state. Being so heavily aid dependent in the recent past …

development and to its democracy. Civil society in India has led the achievement of development goals and civil and political … crises. The marginalisation of civil society actors by a private sector empowered by economic liberalisation, on the one hand … against civil society and points toward the actions necessary to confront them. …