Ravinder Kaur Lecture “Identity Economy: Capitalization of the Nation in Twenty-First-Century India”

Presented by The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies

In this talk, Ravinder Kaur addresses the shift from “nationalization” (the public control of private assets) to what she calls “capitalization” of the nation (the transfer of public assets into private control) in the twenty-first-century. Drawing upon her recent work Brand New Nation, she unpacks the long history of India’s capitalist transition into an enclosure of global investment flows and how it has reconfigured the scaffolding of nation and nationalism in the three decades of economic liberalization.

Ravinder Kaur is a historian of contemporary India. She is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India (2020) and Since 1947: Partition Narratives among the Punjabi Migrants of Delhi (2007, 2018). This event was recorded on on November 15, 2021.

Speakers:
Ravinder Kaur, Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen

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