Becoming Indian by Pavan K. Varma
A wide-ranging collection of essays that traces how Indians are renegotiating identity and culture in the postcolonial, globalized era, arguing that the country is shedding colonial inferiority and rediscovering a confident, pluralist self; it examines language, religion, caste, family, popular culture, nationalism and the diaspora to show how modernity and tradition are being recombined, critiques both unreflective Westernization and narrow traditionalism, and urges an inclusive, liberal patriotism that draws on indigenous values without closing itself to change.
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