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Book SynopsisThis volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by recognizing that India is changing remarkably and by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.
Table of ContentsForeword 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
