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The New India: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Economic Liberalization

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN
0230109519, 9780230109513
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (8956863 bytes)
Pages
259\259
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The New India 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 documents, and citizens' responses to the privatization of public space. 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.

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