The NGO sector in India: historical context and current discourse

D.L. Sheth; Harsh Sethi

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journal article Nov 01, 1991

The NGO sector in India: historical context and current discourse

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Vol. 2 No. 2 pp. 49-68 · Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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The last two decades have witnessed a veritable mushrooming of NGOs in India. What, however, is inadequately appreciated is that the conversion of voluntarism into primarily a favoured instrumentality for developmental intervention has changed what was once an organic part of civil society into merely a sector — an appendage of the developmental apparatus of the state. Further, this process of instrumental appropriation has resulted in these agencies of self-activity losing both their autonomy and political-transformative edge. What is required, therefore, is to reorientate voluntarism from a framework of subserving the needs of delivery to one promoting self-governance in the widest sense.

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D.L. Sheth, Harsh Sethi (1991). The NGO sector in India: historical context and current discourse. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2(2), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01398670

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