Table of Contents

Foreword by Deepak Nayyar; What is this 'New' India? An Introduction - Anthony P. D'Costa; New Interpretations of India's Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century - Kunal Sen; Continuity and Change: Notes on Agriculture in 'New India' - R. Ramakumar; An Uneasy Coexistence: The New and the Old in Indian Industry and Services - Jayan Jose Thomas; Is the New India Bypassing Women? Gendered Implications of India's Growth - Nitya Rao; The 'New' Non Residents of India: A Short History of the NRI - Sareeta Amrute; Revivalism, Modernism and Internationalism: Finding the Old in the New India - Rebecca M. Brown; Creative Tensions: Contemporary Fine Art in the 'New' India - Nina Poulsen

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Critically examines the notion of a 'new' India by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.

About the Author

Anthony P. D'Costa is a Professor in Indian Studies and Research Director at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. He has written extensively on the global steel, Indian automobile, and IT industries, globalization, development, innovations, and industrial restructuring. He is currently working on globalization and the international mobility of IT workers, and editing volumes on Asian economic nationalism and the development experiences of India and China.