The New India [electronic resource] : Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization /
Chowdhury, K.author.
This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India.
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Coverpage; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One Going Global: Texts and Contexts in the New India; Two Polemics and Promises: Constructing the Consumer Citizen; Three The Prompter's Whisper: The National Imaginaryand the Cosmopolitan Subject in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land and The Hungry Tide; Four Transnational Transgressions: Reading the Gendered Subject in Mira Nair's Kama Sutra, Deepa Mehta's Fire, and Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham; Five "Who Will Build Our Taj Mahal?" Urban Displacement, Spatial Politics, and the Resistant Subject
AfterwordNotes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India.
Ethnology—Asia.
International relations.
Asia—Politics and government.
Political science.
Political economy.
Asian Culture.
International Relations.
Asian Politics.
Political Science.
International Political Economy.