| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, March 13, 2012 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Today India is known for its high rates of growth, confident young population, the IT industry, and for high and popular culture. To outside observers India looks different, modern and poised and a global partner ready to work with the international community on pressing issues. The insiders project an image of India that is ‘incredible’ and rich in traditions and history. Acknowledging the mighty strides India has taken since independence, especially in the last twenty years, this presentation argues that in the shuffle of change, development, modernity, and internationalization India is also experiencing a form of ‘collective amnesia’ about the other India, which is argued to be an integral part of the new India. Using a political economy perspective with concepts such as compressed capitalism and uneven development, the lecture shows that to truly capture the new India we must bring out the other India by asking fundamental questions of who gets to work and where, the conditions of employment, how accessible is education, and how mobile is Indian society. In other words, is the new India contributing to a truly democratic society or one that is increasingly divided on a number of dimensions? The lecture ends with some broad policy implications.
Anthony P. D’Costa holds the Professorship in Indian Studies endowed by the A.P. Möller-Mærske Foundation and is the Research Director at the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School. Prior to this appointment in 2008 he was with the University of Washington for eighteen years. He has written extensively on the global steel, Indian automobile and IT industries, globalization, development, innovations, industrial restructuring, and on social justice issues. Author or editor of eight books, his most recent books are Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia (edited Oxford University Press forthcoming), Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in India and China (coedited, Oxford University Press. Forthcoming), A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century (edited 2010), and The New Asian Innovation Dynamics: China and India in Perspective (coedited, 2009).
Anthony P. D’Costa’s new book is available now in paperback. More information here: http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857285041.pdf
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