"Philanthropy in India," a working paper by Caroline Hartnell published by PSJP in association with WINGS, Alliance and the Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy at Ashoka University, confirms this, bringing to light a new wave of giving and new innovations in philanthropy in the country.

While the paper confirms the position of India as a nation of givers with a traditionally charitable impulse, it reports that the quantum of giving has certainly gone up in recent years. While India’s HNWIs are giving more, the most promising aspect of the new philanthropy in the country is the rise of giving by middle-class individual donors, especially young givers.

All of this has implications for the role of philanthropy as a field. The paper captures the function new philanthropy is serving: it is helping to shape public infrastructure, bridging the gaps in the state’s delivery system and modeling innovative solutions for the state to scale. Because of the immense need in our country to meet basic survival needs, and given the levels of absolute poverty, there is an imperative need for this.

Read the full article by Chandrika Sahai about philanthropy in India on psjp.org