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Globalization and the Politics of Identities in India

BALJIT S. MANN

This essay is divided into three sections. The first section addresses itself to the alternative ways in which mainstream literature understands the relationship between globalization and identities, both national and sub-national. Then, some comments are made on why these understandings are unsatisfactory in our opinion. The second section deals with identity politics as it operated in independent India before the onset of globalization. This prepares the ground for the final section, in which some of the dimensions added by globalization are taken up and their implications drawn in the context of India.

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