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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 very concept of globalization needs critical examination, and one productive approach is to focus specifically on the local impacts of globalization in its various guises through comparative ethnographic investigations. Such research also permits examination of the relative significance of globalization, as opposed to national, regional or local factors of change that may actually be more salient. Assayag and Fuller have assembled a team of eminent academics, who 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. This challenging collection also includes a major study of the history of globalization and India that sets current trends in perspective.
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List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Introduction 1
Jackie Assayag and CJFuller
Part One: Economy and Agriculture
2 On the History of Globalization and India: Concepts, Measures
and Debates 17
GBalachandran and Sanjay Subrahmanyam
3 In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-nationalism and Globalization 47
Denis Vidal
4 Seeds of Wrath: Agriculture, Biotechnology and Globalization 65
Jackie Assayag
5 Weaving for IKEA in South India: Subcontracting, Labour Markets
and Gender Relations in a Global Value Chain 89
Geert De Neve
Part Two: Education and Language
6 'Children are Capital, Grandchildren are Interest': Changing
Educational Strategies and Parenting in Calcutta's Middle-class
Families 119
Henrike Donner
7 Of Languages, Passions and Interests: Education, Regionalism and
Globalization in Maharashtra, 1800-2000 141
Veronique Benei
Part Three: Culture and Religion
8 Maps of Audiences: Bombay Films, the French Territory
and the Making of an 'Oblique' Market 165
Emmanuel Grimaud
9 Malabar Gods, Nation-Building and World Culture: On Perceptions
of the Local and the Global 185
Gilks Tarabout
10 Globalizing Hinduism: A 'Traditional' Guru and Modern
Businessmen in Chennai 211