Abstract
This essay explores the changing self-identity of India as a nation state during the 1990s, after the introduction of neoliberal reforms. What is seen to be 'new' and how is it different from what was before? How is an optimistic narrative of a 'new' global self created within the terrain of inequity and inequality in post-reform India? The essay argues that it is through a strategy of fracture-of deliberately created ruptures which compartmentalize and separate what is deemed of value to the global economic networks from all that is deemed waste-that the newness is constructed in the popular domain. Through an exploration of two cultural events in the recent past, the essay shows how the idea of the internal other in new India is produced and reiterated.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Interrogating India's Modernity : Democracy, Identity, and Citizenship : Essays in Honour of Dipankar Gupta |
| Editors | Surinder Jodhka |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Place of Publication | New Delhi |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Publication date | 31 Aug 2013 |
| Chapter | 9 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-19-809207-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Aug 2013 |
