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Informationen zum Autor Jackie Assayag is Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), Maison française, Oxford, UK, and affiliated to the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies at EHESS, Paris. Chris Fuller is Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics. Klappentext This is one of the first books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part One: Economy and Agriculture: 2. On the History of Globalization and India: Concepts; Measures and Debates; 3. In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-nationalism and Globalization; 4. Seeds of Wrath: Agriculture, Biotechnology and Globalization; 5. Weaving for IKEA in South India: Subcontracting, Labour Markets and Gender Relations in a Global Value Chain; Part Two: Education and Language: 6. 'Children are Capital, Grandchildren are Interest': Changing Educational Strategies and Parenting in Caclcutta's Middle-class Families; 7. Of Languages, Passions and Interests: Education, Regionalism and Globalization in Maharashtra, 1800-2000; Part Three: Culture and Religion: 8. Maps of Audiences: Bombay Films, the French Territory and the Making of an 'Oblique' Market, 9. Malabar Gods, Nation-Building and World-Culture: Our Perceptions of the Lcoal and the Global; 10. Globalizing Hinduism: A 'Traditional' Guru and Modern Businessmen in Chennai
