Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India: In the Name of Nation

by Arun Kumar

Drawing on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites, Arun Kumar discusses how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time. Going beyond the more familiar criticisms of development's entanglements with colonialism, Kumar interrogates the changes in development imaginaries in terms of modernity's entanglements with the national question, including anti-colonial nationalism and post-colonial nation-building...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198868634
• ISBN13: 9780198868637
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"