Ravinder Kaur’s Followers (5)

Ravinder’s Bookshelves

to-read (1)
currently-reading (0)
read (0)
did-not-finish (0)

Ravinder Kaur

Goodreads Author

Website

https://ravinderkaur.net/

Twitter

rkadelhi

Genre

History, Nonfiction, Contemporary

Member Since

March 2020

edit data

Ravinder Kaur is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Her core research focuses on the processes of capitalist transformations in twenty-first-century India. This is the subject of her most recent book Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India (2020). Tracing the long history of the economic reforms, the book delves into the yet ongoing transformation of the postcolonial nation into an ‘attractive investment destination’, and the attendant rise of investment-fuelled cultural nationalism.

Her ethnographic focus is broadly on decolonization, state formation, and the making of modern citizenship, which is the focus of her first book Since 1947: Partition Narratives among Punj Ravinder Kaur is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Her core research focuses on the processes of capitalist transformations in twenty-first-century India. This is the subject of her most recent book Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India (2020). Tracing the long history of the economic reforms, the book delves into the yet ongoing transformation of the postcolonial nation into an ‘attractive investment destination’, and the attendant rise of investment-fuelled cultural nationalism.

Her ethnographic focus is broadly on decolonization, state formation, and the making of modern citizenship, which is the focus of her first book Since 1947: Partition Narratives among Punjabi Migrants of Delhi (2007, 2018). The book draws attention to the government of humanitarian crisis – of displacement, the loss of home and livelihood – and the making of the modern nation and its citizenry along the intersection of caste, class and gender.

She is currently engaged in a monograph project based on her long-term research on emerging markets and the ongoing capitalist transformations in the global south. Tentatively entitled The Great Frontier Game: How the Search for “Economic Miracles” is Re-Shaping the World,, this research delves into the yet unwritten global history of “economic miracles,” an idea which discloses counterintuitive connections between seemingly separate spheres of human life – of the national economy and historical memory, economic growth and cultural imaginaries – as well as entanglements between the global south and the north. Grounded in the speculative boom of BRICS nations or emerging markets as the millennial economic miracles in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the project examines how the new taxonomy of economic frontiers – of resources and labour – is produced in a world conceived as a commodity. It traces how resources are accessed, captured, and integrated into the circuits of global capital. It examines what work economic success or failure performs in the realm of national recovery and renewal in the old third world. ...more

0 posts
Ravinder Kaur's Blog

Ravinder Kaur hasn't written any blog posts yet.

Combine Editions
Ravinder Kaur’s books

Average rating: 3.48 · 33 ratings · 5 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India 3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Since 1947: Partition Narratives among Punjabi Migrants of Delhi really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China: Governing Difference by Ravinder Kaur (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ayo Wahlberg (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Positive Alphabets of Life: A manual on how these positive alphabets impact your thinking and bring a new change in you. (Life Mastery Series Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Ravinder Kaur…

rss
Ravinder’s Recent Updates

Ravinder Kaur is now friends with P. Hirson
Jun 29, 2026 09:47AM · like
Ravinder Kaur made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please remove this book - I havent written it topic " I am not the author of this book. Please remove it from my profile. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... Thanks so much. ...more "
Jun 22, 2026 06:55AM
Ravinder Kaur joined the group Goodreads Librarians Group
Jun 22, 2026 06:54AM · like