Appropriately Indian : Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class PDF
by Radhakrishnan Smitha Radhakrishnan
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Radhakrishnan explains how this transnational class creates an Indian culture that is self-consciously distinct from Western culture, yet compatible with Western cosmopolitan lifestyles. She describes the material and symbolic privileges that accrue to India's high-tech workers, who often claim ordinary middle-class backgrounds, but are overwhelmingly urban and upper caste. They are also distinctly apolitical and individualistic. Members of this elite class practice a decontextualized version of Hinduism, and they absorb the ideas and values that circulate through both Indian and non-Indian multinational corporations. Ultimately, though, global Indianness is rooted and configured in the gendered sphere of home and family.
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- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:11/02/2011
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- ISBN:9780822393436
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:11/02/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822393436