Technology and Nationalism in India: Cultural Negotiations from Colonialism to Cyberspace
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And then there are those debts that are beyond words. This book could not have been written without the love, warmth, and good cheer of Jagat Pal Chopra and Urvashi Chopra, Rahul Chopra and Maya Dodd, Govind Shahani and Roshan Shahani, and Nishant Shahani. It is my regret that Mataji and Pitaji, Nana and Nani, and Amma did not live to see this book.

Most of all, for everything, I thank Gitanjali Shahani.

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Parts of this book were first published in the following sources. I am grateful to the publishers for kindly granting me permission to include these materials here.

  • “Neoliberalism as Doxa: Bourdieu’s Theory of the State and the Contemporary Indian Discourse on Globalization and Liberalization,” Cultural Studies 17, nos. 3–4 (2003): 419–444, http://informaworld.com.
  • “Global Primordialities: Virtual Identity Politics in Online Hindutva and Online Dalit Discourse.” The final definitive version of this paper has been published in New Media and Society 8, no. 2 (2006): 187–206 by Sage Publications Ltd., all rights reserved. © 2006, Sage Publications Ltd., http://nms.sagepub.com.
  • “The Cyber-Presence of Babri Masjid: History, Politics, and Difference in Online Indian Islam,” Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 3 (January 19–25, 2008): 47–56, http://www.epw.org.in.
  • “The Virtual State of the Nation: Online Hindu Nationalism in Global Capitalist Modernity,” in South Asian Technospaces, ed. Radhika Gajjala and Venkataramana Gajjala (New York: Peter Lang, 2008), 153–178.
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