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Imagining India in Discourse

Meaning, Power, Structure

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  1. Mohan Jyoti Dutta

    1. Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 14)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Imagining India in Discourse

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 1-23

  3. Discourses of Liberalization: Framing Economics

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 25-55

  4. Innovation, Technology, and Development

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 57-81

  5. Food, Health, Shelter, and Education: Public Provisions and Private Industry

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 83-117

  6. State, Bureaucracy, and Politics: Contradictions in Interpretation

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 119-136

  7. Culture and Communication: Old and New

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 137-156

  8. The Poor, the Rural and the Margins

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 157-176

  9. Epilogue

    • Mohan Jyoti Dutta
    Pages 177-198

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 199-215
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About this book

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India. Written mostly in the future tense, these discourses conceive of India through specific frames of global change and simultaneously offer prescriptive suggestions for the pathways to fulfilling the vision.  Both as summary accounts of the shifts taking place in India and in the relationships of India with other global actors as well as roadmaps for the immediate and longer term directions for India, these discourses offer meaningful entry points into elite imaginations of India. Engaging these imaginations creates a framework for understanding the tropes that are mobilized in support of specific policy formulations in economic, political, cultural, and social spheres.  Connecting meanings within networks of power and structure help make sense of the symbolic articulations of India within material relationships.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Mohan Jyoti Dutta

About the author

Mohan J. Dutta is Professor and Head of the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore and Courtesy Professor of Communication at Purdue University. At NUS, he is the Founding Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), directing research on culturally-centered, community-based projects of social change. He teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in healthcare, health activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and social change. Mohan Dutta has published over 150 journal articles and book chapters, and was recently noted as the most published scholar in Health Communication.

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