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The popular perception of globalisation is rooted in its image of dissolving senses of distance and boundaries. It is so preoccupied with the technology that enables globalisation that little attention is paid to questions of ‘how’ and ‘where’ the circuits of globalisation actually get realised.
This book attempts a more nuanced view of globalisation by focusing on its less-explored, non-technological dimensions. It examines the ...
Probing into history beyond mere historical facts, this book focuses on the 'imaginations' that have determined the course of Bengaluru over the last two-and-half centuries. It puts together contemporary accounts of the imaginations of those who were heard at each point of time. This approach is particularly relevant in the India of the current time where debates on history are largely a matter of choosing one set of historical facts over the other.The ...
The collapse of ideology in the post-communist world has led economic policy makers to lose faith in large ideological models. The resulting dominance of pragmatism has enabled the justification of virtually any combination of policies but without a cogent analytical framework. Arguing that pragmatism is no solution and that instead there is the need to fashion a more systematic method of economic analysis, this pathbreaking book uses Gandhi’s economic ideas to ...