Publisher's Synopsis
Special Features: The sixteen original essays in the book discuss the effects of globalization on prevalent identities in India: political, religious, social, and cultural. Perspectives from political science, history, sociology, economics, and international relations; identity politics in Kashmir, Punjab, North Bengal, Rajasthan and the North-East, as well as among the diaspora. Popular understandings of liberalization and privatization, as also of the impacts of foreign direct investment; and various tendencies brought about by globalization, such as Unitarianism, majoritarian nationalism, and
