Introduction: Civility in Crisis 1. Rural Civilities: Caste, Gender and Public Life in Kerala 2. The Christian Conundrum: Minority Citizens and the Incivility of Caste 3. Disjunctions of Democracy and Liberalism: Agonistic Imaginations of dignity in Bihar 4. To be a Hindu Citizen: Politics of Dalit Migrants in Contemporary West Bengal 5. Modernity without Alterity: Caste Associations and Hindu Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Mumbai 6. Towards Greater Civility: Public Morality and Transversal Queer/Feminist Politics in India 7. Inter-Caste Accommodations and Minimal Civility in Rural India 8. An Uncivil City