Serving the nation
Subtitle: cultures of service, association, and citizenship
By: Carey Anthony Watt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Human services -- India.; Social service -- India -- Societies, etc.
Other titles: Cultures of service, association, and citizenship in colonial India
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-242) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Cambridge) under the title: Social service and the culture of association in North India, 1900-1920.