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Ravinder Kaur is a historian of contemporary India. She is the 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 bo
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Average rating: 3.48 · 33 ratings · 5 reviews · 6 distinct works
Brand New Nation: Capitalis...

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Since 1947: Partition Narra...

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Religion, Violence and Poli...

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The People of India: New In...

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