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Author Chowdhury, Kanishka, 1963-

Title The new India : citizenship, subjectivity, and economic liberalization / Kanishka Chowdhury
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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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
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
Subject Free enterprise -- India
Citizenship -- India
Civil rights & citizenship -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- India.
Asian history -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- India.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- c 1990 to c 2000 -- c 2000 to c 2010 -- India.
HISTORY.
Politics and Government.
Citizenship
Economic policy
Free enterprise
SUBJECT India -- Economic policy -- 1991-2016. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003007131
Subject India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230117099
0230117090
9781349292172
1349292176