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Title: PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT IN INDIA


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PHILANTHROPY AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT IN INDIA
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PHILANTHROPIC CONTEXT
  • 200 years of colonisation
  • 60 years of independence and democracy
  • 43 years of a closed, socialist economy
  • 17 years of rapid globalisation, liberalisation
    and unprecedented economic growth
  • A society deeply divided on many fault lines
  • Class, religion, caste, gender, ethnicity, region
  • Large, diverse, vibrant, evolved philanthropic
    and social sector

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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PHILANTHROPY IN INDIA
  • Pre-independence faith-based charity and
    religious reform movements
  • Gandhian ethos of the freedom movement
  • Decades of social movements
  • Gender, caste, labour, students, land-reform
  • Secular, development-oriented NGOs since the 80s
  • Localised, community-based grassroots
    organisations and movements
  • New emerging diaspora and corporate philanthropy
    with a technocratic world-view
  • And citizen activism in the middle-class

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21st CENTURY INDIA
  • Sees itself as an emerging regional and global
    power
  • Would like to forget its begging bowl past and
    the other 19th century India of starvation,
    female infanticide, farmer suicides, separatist
    struggles and abject poverty
  • Indulge in the new-found freedoms of mass
    consumerism
  • Superficial modernity overlaid on a deep-rooted,
    endemic, feudal, patriarchal culture
  • Growing polarisation and fragmentation of society
  • Increasing impatience with the pace of change and
    recourse to violence on all sides
  • Resurgent religious intolerance
  • Increased regulatory constraints on the
    non-profit sector

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GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT
  • Re-structuring of global institutions
  • Cross-border solidarity
  • Trade
  • Indigenous rights
  • Racism
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Environment
  • Civil society protection and representation
  • International advocacy
  • Alternate models of economic, social, political
    and cultural justice

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  • Rio Think global, act local
  • Porto Allegre Another world is possible
  • In the face of
  • Growing global and domestic inequalities
  • Global challenges of disease, terrorism
  • Global environmental crises
  • Threats to democracy and civil society
  • Trans-national market forces and media

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ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
  • IF WE CAN
  • THINK LOCAL BUT ACT GLOBAL
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