The God Market: How Globalization Is Making India More Hindu - Hardcover

Nanda, Meera

 
9781583672501: The God Market: How Globalization Is Making India More Hindu
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1583672508 ISBN 13: 9781583672501
Verlag: Monthly Review Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today's India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwining of Hinduism and neoliberal ideology, spurred on by a growing capitalist class. It is this "State-Temple-Corporate Complex,” she claims, that now wields decisive political and economic power, and provides ideological cover for the dismantling of the Nehru-era state-dominated economy. According to this new logic, India's rapid economic growth is attributable to a special "Hindu mind,” and it is what separates the nation's Hindu population from Muslims and others deemed to be "anti-modern.” As a result, Hindu institutions are replacing public ones, and the Hindu "revival” itself has become big business, a major source of capital accumulation. Nanda explores the roots of this development and its possible future, as well as the struggle for secularism and socialism in the world's second-most populous country.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Meera Nanda is a writer, philosopher, and scientist. Her books include Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India and Breaking the Spell of Dharma. She teaches history of science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Mohali, and has been a fellow of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Studies in New Delhi.

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Verlag
Monthly Review Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1583672508
ISBN 13 
9781583672501
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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