This volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by acknowledging that India is changing remarkably and by indicating that in the overzealous enthusiasm about the new India, there is collective amnesia about the other, older India. The book argues that the increasing consolidation of capitalist markets of commodity production and consumption has unleashed not only economic growth and social change, but has also introduced new contradictions associated with market dynamics in the material and social as well as intellectual spheres.
Table of Content
Foreword by Deepak Nayyar; What is this ‘New’ India? An Introduction – Anthony P. D’Costa; New Interpretations of India’s Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century – Kunal Sen; Continuity and Change: Notes on Agriculture in ‘New India’ – R. Ramakumar; An Uneasy Coexistence: The New and the Old in Indian Industry and Services – Jayan Jose Thomas; Is the New India Bypassing Women? Gendered Implications of India’s Growth – Nitya Rao; The ‘New’ Non Residents of India: A Short History of the NRI – Sareeta Amrute; Revivalism, Modernism and Internationalism: Finding the Old in the New India – Rebecca M. Brown; Creative Tensions: Contemporary Fine Art in the ‘New’ India – Nina Poulsen
About the author
Anthony P. D’Costa is a Professor in Indian Studies and Research Director at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. He has written extensively on the global steel, Indian automobile, and IT industries, globalization, development, innovations, and industrial restructuring. He is currently working on globalization and the international mobility of IT workers, and editing volumes on Asian economic nationalism and the development experiences of India and China.
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