Of Cricket, Guinness And Gandhi

VINAY LAL

Penguin

The book explores the extent to which Indian popular cinema offers a fresh view of South Asian public life while being a distinctive response to the new political presence of changing culture of the urban middle classes in the region. It uses the Indian popular cinema to re-examine the relationships among society, politics, and culture.

Fingerprinting Popular Culture: The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Oxford University Press

<p>This 160-page illustrated volume is based upon Professor Lal's path-breaking scholarship and research on Indian history, comparative colonial histories, and the contemporary politics of knowledge and culture. The Other Indians synthesizes, in pocketbook form, his ideas around the emergence of the Indian community in the U.S. with a focus on post-1965 communities. The thirteen chapters cover the following topics: Indians in the global setting and their passage to America; early students and rebels; the emergence of new South Asian communities; culture, religion, education, and affluence; and the politics and future of Indians in the U.S and in the Indian diaspora. This is the first volume of the Press's "Asia Pacific Ideas/Professor-in-a-Pocket" series that features the innovative thinking and research of the renowned faculty of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. The Center, established in 1969, and the new UCLA Asian American Studies Department, together constitute the only Asian American studies program in the nation which combines teaching, research, and publishing. The Other Indians is the first pocket-sized political and culture history of South Asian Indians in America and designed for the general public as well as classroom usage. Photographs and a handy resource reading guide are included</p>

The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America

UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy

Business & Money

Economics

Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.

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