Chowdhury, Kanishka,

The new India: citizenship, subjectivity, and economic liberalization / Kanishka Chowdhury. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011. - xii, 246 p. : 22 cm.

Going global: texts and contexts in the New India -- Polemics and promises: constructing the consumer citizen -- The prompter's whisper: the national imaginary and the cosmopolitan subject in Amitav Ghosh's In an antique land and The hungry tide -- Transnational transgressions: reading the gendered subject in Mira Nair's Kama Sutra, Deepa Mehta's Fire, and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it like Beckham -- "Who will build our Taj Mahal?": urban displacement, spatial politics, and the resistant subject.

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Free enterprise--India.
Citizenship--India.


India--Economic policy

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