Becoming a light onto itself': Nationalist fantasies in the age of globalisation

The author notes that the growth of radical Hindu nationalism since the late 1980s coincided with the opening and integration of India into global systems of production and global flows of consumption and cultural products. These processes were certainly coterminous, but their causal linkages remain...

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Published in:Economic & political weekly
Main Author: Blom Hansen, Thomas (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: 1996
In: Economic & political weekly
Further subjects:B Nationalism
B World economy
B Hinduism
B Interdependence
B International political system
B India
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Summary:The author notes that the growth of radical Hindu nationalism since the late 1980s coincided with the opening and integration of India into global systems of production and global flows of consumption and cultural products. These processes were certainly coterminous, but their causal linkages remain less obvious and straight-forward. He (the author) examines how some of these interlinkages could be constructed. (DÜI-Sen)
ISSN:0012-9976
Contains:In: Economic & political weekly