Globalizing India: Perspectives from Below (Anthem South Asian Studies)

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This is one of the earliest books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. The editors have assembled a team of eminent academics to present a series of critical discussions about important issues of economy and agriculture, education and language, and culture and religion, based on ethnographic case studies from different localities in India. Globalizing India is a major contribution to South Asian Studies, interrogating a topic of contemporary importance – both within the region and internationally. Front Matter Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents List of Contributors Ackowledgements Main Body Chapter 1. Introduction, by Jackie Assayag and C. J. Fuller 1.1 Globalization in India 1.2 An Outline of this Book 1.3 Conclusion Bibliography Part One: Economy and Agriculture Chapter 2. On the History of Globalization and India: Concepts, Measures and Debates, by G. Balachandran and Sanjay Subrahmanyam 2.1 Introdution: A Problematic Catergory 2.2 The Perspective from World Economic History 2.3 The World and Early Modern India 2.4 Colonial Trade and Globalization 2.5 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 3. In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-Nationalism and Globalization, by Denis Vidal 3.1 Globalization and Delocalization 3.2 Globalization and Relocalization 3.3 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 4. Seeds of Wrath: Agriculture, Biotechnology and Globalization, by Jackie Assayag 4.1 South India 4.2 Paris, Europe and the World 4.3 Agriculture in India 4.4 The Agro-capitalist Cosmology of Seeds 4.5 Farmers Against Globalization 4.6 The Vernacular Cosmology of Seeds 4.7 Moneylenders, Brokers, Sellers 4.8 Body, Transplantation and Conspiracy 4.9 Globalization, History and Causality Notes Bibliography Chapter 5. Weaving for 'Ikea' in South India: Subcontracting, Labour Markets and Gender Relations in a Global Value Chain, by Geert de Neve 5.1 The Location, Company and Products 5.2 Labour Recruitment and the Strategy of 'Putting Out' 5.3 To Weave or Not to Weave - the Workers' Perspective 5.4 A Comparison with the Kamaraj Colony 5.5 Workers' Mobility: Shifting Patterns of Post-Marital Residence 5.6 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Part Two: Education and Language Chapter 6. 'Children are Capital, Grandchildren are Interest': Changing Educational Strategies and Parenting in Calcutta's Middle-Class Families, by Henrike Donner 6.1 The Setting 6.2 Education and Expectations in the Global Economy 6.3 Parenting 6.4 Shared Parenting 6.5 Paternal Grandmothers 6.6 Mothers and Networks 6.7 Conclusion: Educational Strategies and Intra-Household Relations Notes Bibliography Chapter 7. Of Languages, Passions and Interests: Education, Regionalism and Globalization in Maharashtra, 1800-2000, by Véronique Bénéȉ 7.1 Introduction: 'Globalization' in Maharashtra 7.2 Linguistic Globalism in the Region 7.3 Imperial and Global Idioms, and Economic Privileges 7.4 Regional Identities and Nation-Building 7.5 Globalization at the Grassroots Level 7.6 Epilogue: of Passions and Interests Notes Bibliography Part Three: Culture and Religion Chapter 8. Maps of Audiences: Bombay Films, the French Territory and the Making of an 'Oblique' Market, by Emmanuel Grimaud 8.1 The Globe as an Experimental Field 8.2 When a Dubbing-Room Becomes a Language Laboratory 8.3 Uncertain Locations, or How to Create a New Contrast of Voices Inside a Dubbing-Room 8.4 'Whose Language Is it?', or The Birth of a Home-made Alien 8.5 Playing with Distance: 'We Have Such Empathy with the Original!' 8.6 'Dubbing Is Recreation', or The Philosophy of a Hybrid-Maker 8.7 Overlapping Audiences: Someone, Somewhere is More Recreative Than You! 8.8 Viewing as Dubbing, or How Dubbing Treatment Became the Target of Many Comments 8.9 The World Market, or How to Make Many Films into One and Split One Audience into Many 8.10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 9. Malabar Gods, Nation-Building and World Culture: On Perceptions of the Local and the Global, by Giles Tarabout 9.1 Teyyam as a Cult of and for Localities 9.2 Meeting with the Colonial West 9.3 Meeting with Christianity 9.4 Reformists in Action 9.5 Marxists in Action 9.6 Building the Nation 9.7 Scholars in Action 9.8 Looking for Money and Consideration 9.9 Meeting the International Public 9.10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 10. Globalizing Hinduism: A 'Traditional' Guru and Modern Businessmen in Chennai, by C. J. Fuller and John Harriss 10.1 Swami Dayanda Saraswati and His Activities 10.2 Chennai Businessmen and their Religion 10.3 Dayananda's 'Traditional' Teaching 10.4 Business Success and Dayananda's Appeal in Chennai 10.5 The 'Cultural Vacuum' and 'Generic' Hinduism 10.6 Conclusion: Globalization and Hinduism Notes Bibliography