"Through in-depth analysis of advertisements, politics and group-based practices, this book analyses the complex local, regional, and national historical developments related to the making of the Indian consumer across a century of global involvement. In assessing the nationalist discourse,...

chapter 1 Peripheral labour: Theoretical premises -- chapter 2 Periphery in the making -- chapter 3 Structure, dynamics and the hegemony of European capital -- chapter 4 Plantation worker-families: Sources, social origins and gender divisions -- chapter 5 Slaves reborn? The...

List of maps, figures, and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: wealth, wellbeing, and social institutions -- Organized labor and democratic consolidation -- The state and economic development -- Economic reform and labor's response -- Reorganizing industry, disorganizing workers --...

Caste, public action, and the Kerala model / KT Rammohan -- "Community" as de-imagining nation : relocating Narayana Guru and Ezhava movement in Kerala / J. Reghu -- Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism : Travails in the making of a community / M.M.Khan -- Freedom, economic reform, and...

1. The politics of economic restructuring in India -- 2. Nation-building and scale in India's federal polity -- 3. The politics and scales of economic reforms -- 4. Reforms and the rescaling of state spaces -- 5. State spatial strategies via Special Economic Zones -- 6. State spaces and changing...

chapter 1 Emerging India: Issues in development -- chapter 2 Global trade and investments: Opportunities and challenges for India -- chapter 3 Industrial capabilities: Research and development as the indicator -- chapter 4 Economic restructuring: Employment and income implications -- chapter 5...