ABSTRACT
The votaries, critics and moderators of globalisation gaze at it as a fact. This chapter proposes to highlight the internal, along with and as the precondition to, the external. It distinguishes globalisation from cultural imperialism. It throws light on the two phases of globalisation—what takes place outside of a nation's territorial boundary, and what takes place within the society itself. Imperialism is defined as the 'territorial expansion of a nation and its domination over other countries'. Cultural imperialism refers to that process where one culture, or even a culturally embedded nation, tries either through persuasion or coercion, or a mixture of both, either stealthily or openly, to impose itself on another culture. One can identify the weakness of globalisation by turning to developing countries like India, where globalisation is facing stiff local resistance. In classical Indian philosophy permanence is sustained by pre-existence and post-existence. The combination of pre-existence and existence remains in all subsequent developments.
