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Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

Radhakrishnan, Smitha

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General SociologyIndian & South Asian HistoryWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0822348438
ISBN13: 9780822348436
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Feb 11 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India's labor force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country's economic and cultural scene, as do their notions of what it means to be Indian. Drawing on the stories of Indian professionals in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, and South Africa, Smitha Radhakrishnan explains how these high-tech workers create a global Indianness by transforming the diversity of Indian cultural practices into a generic, mobile set of Indian norms. Female information technology professionals are particularly influential. By reconfiguring notions of respectable femininity and the good Indian family, they are reshaping ideas about what it means to be Indian.

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