Title: Pop culture India!
Description: Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history.How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!
Subjects: Economic aspects of Popular culture, Geography, Nonfiction, Popular culture, Religion and culture, Social aspects of Popular culture, Sociology, Popular culture, india, India, social conditions, India, economic conditions, Economic aspects, Social aspects
Places: India