People's Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism
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- Synopsis
- India is witnessing a unique moment in populism, with sentiments divided between economic reforms that promise fast industrialization and protests that thwart such industrialization. This book offers an ethnographic study of divergent local responses to the proposed construction of a Tata Motors factory in eastern India that would have produced the Nano, the so-called people’s car. Initial excitement was followed by long protests against the factory, and then, after its relocation, by further demonstrations seeking to bring it back. Taking this ambivalence as a way past romantic clichés about urban/rural divisions, People’s Car offers a single analytical framework demonstrating how pro- and anti-industrialization forces feed off each other.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780823282432
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780823282425
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/23/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Fordham University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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