The Globalization Turbulence : Emerging Tensions in Indian Society

Contents: Foreword. I. Social structure: 1. Structural differentiation and developmental politics in post-liberalization India/T.K. Oommen. 2. Recent trends in caste inequalities: comparison of NSSO consumption expenditure data of 2000 and 2005/Satish Deshpande. 3. Violence, aspirations and migration in post-liberalization rural India: conflict and change in a strife-torn village/Ravi Kumar. II. Development and the marginalized: 4. Changing dimensions of women's work and gender inequality in the post-reform period/Neetha N. 5. On deepening poverty of the masses including deprived social groups in rural and urban India under economic reforms/Utsa Patnaik. III. Culture and religion: 6. Globalization, mass media and proliferating Gurus: the changing texture of religion in contemporary India/Surya Prakash Upadhyay and Rowena Robinson. 7. Globalization, faith and development politics/P. Radhakrishnan. 8. Usurping differences, reproducing homogeneity: cultural changes in the midst of global markets/Rohini Sahni and V. Kalyan Shankar. IV. Discourses in social movements: 9. Gender discourse and its many avatars: how critical? How mainstream?/Maitrayee Chaudhuri. 10. When neo-liberal agenda negotiates Dalit agenda: the case of BSP in Uttar Pradesh/Prashant Kumar Trivedi. Index.

This book brings together the writings of prominent Indian academics presenting an overview of changes experienced by Indian society in the last two decades. It also presents a critique of ongoing liberalization process in India and its interface with societal arrangements. It seeks to examine globalization process by discussing it at different levels-social, economic and cultural. It also engages these issues by looking at them through different prisms and from different vantage points. Besides, it also deepens our understanding on issues such as the nature of structural transformations in caste, class and gender structure; social movements in the age of market economy; the interaction of liberalized economy with culture and religion; the relationship of developmental politics and social change; growing inequalities and poverty; and transformation of labour market with informalization of labour.