摘要：In Understanding Globalisation and Emerging India (hereafter referred to as UGEI), a collection of texts from different genres which most have appeared previously, the sociologist Anand Kumar of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (hereafter referred to as JNU) argues that India is a scene of an interplay of both modernization and struggles against globalization. On the one hand, UGEI acknowledges the empirical reality of emerging India and positive sides of India’s integration to global economy. However, UGEI also observes increasing levels of inequality in Indian society as a result of overwhelming processes of globalization. According to UGEI, it could still be considered as an intelligible effort if one tries to understand inequality along classical sociological categories of class, caste, religion and gender. However, the emphasis now has to be on relative deprivations in order to understand the current configurations in Indian society. While the economy of one of the most important countries of the Global South is rapidly being globalized, this is how one can grasp social transformations taking place in Indian society. Even if the case studies of UGEI mainly relate to India, the book is not just about that country. As the title of the book suggests, the book is primarily about understanding globalization from a world-systems perspective. And emerging India’s integration to global economy, social consequences of the globalization processes and a Gandhian interpretation of alteration of Indian life-worlds are the complementary parts of the book.
