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| The Making
of Neo-liberal India
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1990s, popular cultural archives document the
rise of a new woman, carefully crafted to be
modern, compatible with globalizing India,
yet Indian, representing its core values.
The focus is on the middle class's engagement
with Indian identity in the era of globalization
and how notions of masculinity and femininity
are central to this. Oza nuances this macro
argument and avoids positioning a hegemonic
state apparatus against civil society. She
paints the relationship between economic
liberalization, globalization, rise of Hindutva
and the alliance of the new middle class
with all these developments in broad brushstrokes,
putting forward a fairly plausible case. |
| —The
Book Review, October 2007
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