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Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India
and China

In the late 1990s, the post-reform India unveiled a global publicity campaign to create a different self image from a third world nation to a major global player just as China buoyed by its stunning economic growth sets out to become a superpower in science and technology. If these spectacular moments constitute the rise of India and China in the early 21st century, they do so in entanglement with the everyday disquiet over inequity and inequality within these societies. From the Maoist struggle and contentious rural development schemes in India to the Chinese states attempts to control and direct the rural migrant populations in the urban industrial zones, the two Asian powers are invested in a double edged project of governing difference to create a distinct global identity for the outside gaze even as they struggle to contain growing unrest inside.

This book explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilized and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years. The book approaches difference as a double edged concept that allows one to make sense of the tensions that are played out between cosmopolitan convergence and multicultural diversity, between expanding middle classes and increasingly disenfranchised poor groups, between the global and the local.

The chapters in this book examine how difference is articulated, desired, leveled, governed and even subverted in the socio-economically uneven landscapes of India and China. They consider how difference emerges out of daily practice, categorisation processes, dividing practices, nation building efforts and identity projects. Difference, here, is not just examined as celebration of diversity in multicultural settings, but also something deemed potentially disruptive and in need of containment by the state. The contributors explore how the states construct and control differences and how these interventions rearrange the social-political landscapes.

This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Ravinder Kaur is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Global South Asian Studies, Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She is currently responsible for a research programme funded by the Danish Social Sciences Research Council on the ongoing social-political transformations in post-reform India.

Ayo Wahlberg is Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Asian Dynamics Initiative, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Ayo has published widely at the cross-sections of science and technology studies and medical anthropology/sociology. His current research project is in the field of reproductive technologies in south central China where he is carrying out an ethnographic study of sperm banking. Ayo holds a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics and was recently awarded a Sapere Aude Young Researcher award from the Danish Council of Independent Research.

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Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China

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Identity, Inequity and Inequality in
India and China

Governing Difference

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Ravinder Kaur and Ayo Wahlberg

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