Description |
1 online resource (xii, 246 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
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 |
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AfterwordNotes; Works Cited; Index |
Summary |
Examining differing images of citizenship and its rules and rituals in these narratives, Chowdhury sheds light on the complex interactions between culture and political economy in the New India. This book looks critically at various constructions of the Indian citizen from 1991 to 2007, the period when economic liberalization became established government policy. Liberalization generated complex social and economic tensions, and Chowdhury reveals how these tensions shaped images of the citizen in cultural narratives of the time - in films, literary texts, corporate advertisements, political do |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Free enterprise -- India
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Citizenship -- India
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Civil rights & citizenship -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- India.
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Asian history -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- India.
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- India.
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HISTORY.
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Politics and Government.
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Citizenship
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Economic policy
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Free enterprise
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SUBJECT |
India -- Economic policy -- 1991-2016.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003007131
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Subject |
India
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780230117099 |
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0230117090 |
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9781349292172 |
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1349292176 |
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