This is often one of many earliest books to give a set of writings at the results of globalization on India and Indian society. The very notion of globalization wishes serious exam, and one effective process is to concentration in particular at the neighborhood affects of globalization in its a number of guises via comparative ethnographic investigations. Such learn additionally allows exam of the relative value of globalization, in preference to nationwide, nearby or neighborhood components of swap which can really be extra salient. Assayag and Fuller have assembled a staff of eminent lecturers, who current a sequence of severe discussions approximately very important problems with economic climate and agriculture, schooling and language, and tradition and faith, in accordance with ethnographic case reports from varied localities in India. This hard assortment additionally encompasses a significant learn of the background of globalization and India that units present developments in point of view.
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As is well-known, India ran a ON THE HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION AND INDIA 35 surplus on the trade account (excluding treasure) during most of this period. 5 per cent and about 2 per cent during 1921–46. 49 Estimates of the ratio of capital imports (or exports) to national income have to be regarded with particular caution because of the quality of the underlying data. According to Goldsmith, foreign investment in India was ‘small’ before 1857 and consisted primarily of British investors’ holdings of East India Company stock.
1. Lechner and Boli (p. 1) also describe it as a ‘cliché’, as do David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture (Stanford, 1999), p. 1. , Globalization in History (see note 1), p. 1. , Global Transformations (see note 1), p. 2. 4 Serge Gruzinski, Virando Séculos 1480–1520. A passagem do século: Às origens da globalização (São Paulo, 1999). 5 Cf Andrew Gow, ‘Gog and Magog on Mappaemundi and early printed world maps: orientalizing ethnography in the apocalyptic tradition’, Journal of Early Modern History, Vol.
28 In this vein one may speculate that the category of globalization is a re-invention of international capitalism in search of a new image after ‘capitalism’ and ‘modernity’ had become politically compromised or passé, while democracy – which once preceded capitalism in the West’s order of battle during the Cold War – has become too subversive. On the other hand, because it has not acquired any canonical meaning at least yet, and means different things to different people and in different places, globalization has also become hostage to interventions of diverse kinds to shape its meaning and course.