ABSTRACT
This book traces public debate about globalization in India through three sites. These sites offer a way in which to understand the contours of the “idea of India” in globalization and identify the publics invested in this discourse. The three sites are court cases against the state and private channels, the 1996 Miss World Pageant, and India’s demonstration of nuclear weapons capability. These sites span a decade of dramatic political and economic change that was initiated by the institution of neoliberal polices of economic reform that changed India’s encounter with global capital. The three sites demonstrate the links between the Hindu Right’s rise to power and middle class narratives of the nation in the context of economic liberalization in India.
