Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World

by Carol A. Breckenridge

Consuming Modernity illustrates that what is distinctive of any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. Behind the embattled arena of culture in India, for example, lie particular social and political interests such as the growing middle class; the entrepreneurs and commercial institutions; and the state.

The contributors address the roles of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816623066
• ISBN13: 9780816623068
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"