ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that globalisation is not a one-way transfer, but a pluralistic process in which all people and countries participate to varying extents. It engages with the concept of glocalisation, which was also explored by Mohit Bhattacharyya and which Lion Konig defines as the hybrid results of the multi-directional flows through which ideas, images, and languages travel and often become parts of new, third entities. The book explores a range of questions regarding the triangle of the relationship between development, globalisation, and India's Left. It contends that the success of the local self-government institutions holds an important key to the working of India's reforms. The book shows that there have been changes in the dynamics of sub-national movements in terms of character, focus, leadership, and, above all, in the criteria of granting Statehood to regional movements.
