Kumar Arun (Lecturer In International Management Lecturer In International Management University Of York)
Kumar Arun (Lecturer In International Management Lecturer In International Management University Of York) - Philanthropy And The Development Of Modern India In The Name Of Nation - Hardcover
Kumar Arun (Lecturer In International Management Lecturer In International Management University Of York) - Philanthropy And The Development Of Modern India In The Name Of Nation - Hardcover
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Description: 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 during the 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 national - modern in four main sites of development: civil society community science and technology and selfhood. In an unusual move reading socio - economic nationalist reform from the first half of the twentieth century alongside post - colonial development from the second half Kumar uncovers the lineages of contemporary development ideas such as self - care self - reliance merit etc. In all this elites were driven by a 'pedagogic reflex': to teach different sections of Indian society of how to be modern and developed. Contrary to development studies characterization of elites as anti - development or captors of scarce resources Kumar shows how elites longed for development for others. Development provided the moral justification in their calculations for protecting their commercial interests as they navigated the turbulent Indian twentieth century.
Title: Philanthropy And The Development Of Modern India In The Name Of Nation
Author(s): Kumar Arun (Lecturer In International Management Lecturer In International Management University Of York)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198868637
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 1/27/2022
Series: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
Category: Economic History
Description: 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 during the 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 national - modern in four main sites of development: civil society community science and technology and selfhood. In an unusual move reading socio - economic nationalist reform from the first half of the twentieth century alongside post - colonial development from the second half Kumar uncovers the lineages of contemporary development ideas such as self - care self - reliance merit etc. In all this elites were driven by a 'pedagogic reflex': to teach different sections of Indian society of how to be modern and developed. Contrary to development studies characterization of elites as anti - development or captors of scarce resources Kumar shows how elites longed for development for others. Development provided the moral justification in their calculations for protecting their commercial interests as they navigated the turbulent Indian twentieth century.
Title: Philanthropy And The Development Of Modern India In The Name Of Nation
Author(s): Kumar Arun (Lecturer In International Management Lecturer In International Management University Of York)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198868637
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 1/27/2022
Series: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
Category: Economic History
