Title: Serving the nation : cultures of service, association, and citizenship /
Authors: Watt, Carey Anthony.
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Social service India; Charities India; Civil society India.; Citizenship India; Human services India; Social service India Societies, etc.; India Social conditions
Abstract: This title examines the social and political impact of philanthropical work carried out in the early 1900s by Hindu organisations in North India. It charts the emergence of a 'culture of service', challenging concepts of the Indian nation-state and its relationship to civil society.