Globalizing India
Perspectives from Below
Published on 5. July 2005
Book
Hardback
245 pages
978-1-84331-194-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is one of the earliest books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. The editors have assembled a team of eminent academics to present a series of critical discussions about important issues of economy and agriculture, education and language, and culture and religion, based on ethnographic case studies from different localities in India. Globalizing India is a major contribution to South Asian Studies, interrogating a topic of contemporary importance - both within the region and internationally.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84331-194-2 (9781843311942)
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Jackie Assayag is Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), Maison francaise, Oxford, UK, and affiliated to the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies at EHESS, Paris.
Chris Fuller is Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics.
Chris Fuller is Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics.
Content
List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part One: Economy and Agriculture: 2. On the History of Globalization and India: Concepts; Measures and Debates; 3. In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-nationalism and Globalization; 4. Seeds of Wrath: Agriculture, Biotechnology and Globalization; 5. Weaving for IKEA in South India: Subcontracting, Labour Markets and Gender Relations in a Global Value Chain; Part Two: Education and Language: 6. 'Children are Capital, Grandchildren are Interest': Changing Educational Strategies and Parenting in Caclcutta's Middle-class Families; 7. Of Languages, Passions and Interests: Education, Regionalism and Globalization in Maharashtra, 1800-2000; Part Three: Culture and Religion: 8. Maps of Audiences: Bombay Films, the French Territory and the Making of an 'Oblique' Market, 9. Malabar Gods, Nation-Building and World-Culture: Our Perceptions of the Lcoal and the Global; 10. Globalizing Hinduism: A 'Traditional' Guru and Modern Businessmen in Chennai