The New India

1. Introduction
Kanishka Chowdhury

2. Going Global: Texts and Contexts in the New India
Kanishka Chowdhury

3. Polemics and Promises: Constructing the Consumer Citizen
Kanishka Chowdhury

4. The Prompter’s Whisper: The National Imaginary and the Cosmopolitan Subject in Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land and The Hungry Tide
Kanishka Chowdhury

5. Transnational Transgressions: Reading the Gendered Subject in Mira Nair’s Kama Sutra, Deepa Mehta’s Fire, and Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham
Kanishka Chowdhury

6. “Who Will Build Our Taj Mahal?” Urban Displacement, Spatial Politics, and the Resistant Subject
Kanishka Chowdhury

7. Afterword
Kanishka Chowdhury

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, International Relations, Asian Politics, Political Science, Political Economy