Facing Globality Politics of Resistance, Relocation, and Reinvention in India

by Brar, Bhupinder; Mukherjee, Pampa

• ISBN13: 9780198078968
• ISBN10: 019807896X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume explores a range of issues that gauge India's response to globalization and the subsequent move to the state of globality, which is the result of the process of globalization. It looks at India as a specific location of globality and devises a framework for analysing this phenomenon, thus moving beyond the 'nationalist' mould in which the social sciences in India have traditionally operated. The essays examine the discourses of resistance, relocation, and reinventionapparent in the social sciences in order to map the changing nature of the Indian state and society. Though they individually draw different conclusions, the essays are bound together by a commonality of approach: they bear out the principal suggestion that resistance, relocation, and reinventionconstitute a conceptual triad to find the coordinates of altered ideas, interrelationships, stances, and stratagems.

Author Biography

Bhupinder Brar is Professor, Department of Political Science, Panjab Unversity, Chandigarh.

Pampa Mukherjee is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Panjab Unversity, Chandigarh.

Table of Contents

Mapping India's Globality: Introducing an Agenda for Research (Bhupinder Brar)
1. : Imagining the Global Nation (Aditya Nigam)
2. : The Overseas Citizen of India: Setubandhan or Duality of Citizenship? (Anupama Roy)
3. : Globality, State, and Collective Imagination: The Indian Experience (Neera Chandhoke)
4. : Janus and its Mirrors: Global Forums and India's Development Debate (Janaki Srinivasan)
5. : Globality and Dissonance in Indian Democracy: Explaining Why Indian Political Parties Do What They Do (Ashutosh Kumar)
6. : The CPI (M) and Globalization: Anatomy of Ambivalence (Partha Pratim Basu)
7. : Globality and Imagined Futures: A Brief History of Uttarakhand's Development Dreams (Pampa Mukherjee)
8. : Locating the Dislocated in Globalized India: A Comparative Study of Resistance against Bhakhra and Sardar Sarovar Projects (Deepak K. Singh)
9. : Globality and the Reinvention of Punjabi Cinema (Kumool Abbi)
Notes on Contributors