Subject(s): Human Right Movement -- Democratisation -- Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Social movements -- civil society, state and nation -- Assertion of civil society against the state : post colonial world -- Neo-liberal ideology and political theory in an African Context -- Autonomy and interconnection -- Democratic theory and democratic struggles -- Nationalism, nation building and state in Indian -- Class, ethnicity and autonomy movements in India -- Nature and structure if ethnic conflict and separatism in south Asia -- People's movement -- Movements and politics of democratisation : Philippine -- Peasants dalits and women: democracy and India's new social movements -- Farmer's movements and cultural politics in India -- Peasant social structure, politics and democratisation in Nigeria -- Agrarian struggles and land reforms in Bengal -- Working-class movement in India: trade union and state -- Human rights -- State and human rights movement in India -- Civil liberties movement and the state in India -- Civil liberty movement in Nigeria -- Depoliticisation of civil society : social movements and the corporatist state in Indonesia -- Micro-struggles: NGO's and state