Towards a Sociology of India’s Economic Elite: Beyond the Neo-Orientalist and Managerialist Perspectives

Surinder Jodhka and Jules Naudet ()
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Surinder Jodhka: JNU - Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jules Naudet: CEIAS - Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CSH - Centre de sciences humaines de New Delhi - MEAE - Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Is there such a thing as an "Indian way of doing business"? Many publications, whether academic or not, indeed assert the singularity of Indians' approach to business, often mobilizing an orientalist gaze and reifying the peculiar conception of business that supposedly prevails in the subcontinent. This special issue of SAMAJ proposes to move away from a focus on "doing business" in order to rather dedicate more attention to the role of economic elites in the production and reproduction of inequalities and privileges as well as on the possible roles they play in the process of capital accumulation.

Keywords: elite; power; inequality; business; social class; caste; sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-01-16
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Published in South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2017, 15, ⟨10.4000/samaj.4316⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/samaj.4316

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