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Arun Kumar

Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India

In the Name of Nation

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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 duringthe twentieth century. Development, he suggests, can be usefully read and critiqued as national-modern. Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India plots the careers of the nati… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-263920-2
  • EAN: 9780192639202
  • Produktnummer: 37576236
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Arun Kumar is a Lecturer at the University of York, UK. He researches the role of businesses and philanthropy in India's development. His archival research has been funded by the Economic History Society, UK and the Rockefeller Archives Center, USA. In an earlier life, he was trained as an architect and a development manager, and worked for nearly eight years consulting with advocacy groups, NGOs, think tanks, donors, and independent researchorganizations in India.

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