Globalization and the politics of identity in India
Globalization in India: contents and discontents
Locations : advertising and the New Swadeshi -- Elaborations : the commodity image -- Citizens have sex, consumers make love : KamaSutra I -- The aesthetic politics of aspiration : KamaSutra II -- Bombay global : mobility and locality I -- Bombay local : Mobility and locality II…
"India and Turkey, Asia Minor and the Subcontinent of Hindustan and the Ottomans and Mughals have had shared histories of contact, engagement, and dialogue over the centuries. Much of northern India was under the control of rulers from Central Asia since at least the thirteenth …
Drawing from recent theories of virtuality, performativity, and governmentality, and on post-colonial activist scholarship from the global south, this book presents a series of ethnographic and archival studies of what Mukhopadhyay terms 'vernacular globalisation' in India. The …
This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic dev…