A GLOBAL IDENTITY - THE INDIAN DILEMMA

• Authors: Tokarski Stanislaw
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper explores different aspects of political, cultural and economical position of India in the globalizing world. The special scope of the article is national and cultural identity of Indian subcontinent. The change of the Indian nationalistic thought is also discussed. The article offers some images of encounter of Indian culture with so called Western cultures as seen trough the lenses of Indian cultural products (i. e. Bollywoood movies) or Indian political discourse. The author evokes technological and economical encounters between the India and globalizing world - seeing them - as for example Indian IT experts' integration into global IT system, as a 'first step to globalization of the Indian mind'.

Keywords

EN

GLOBALIZATION; INDIA - POLITICAL & ECONOMICAL POSITION; INDIAN CULTURE

Discipline

• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 91-96
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tokarski Stanislaw

• Stanislaw Tokarski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre for Studies on Non-European Countries, ul. Nowy Swiat 72, 00-330 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA066123