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Aug 22, 2023 · Gandhi, et al. 2020 continues this line of thought in the authors’ attention to the ways exchange is embedded in community. Sartori 2008 argues that it was capitalism that produced the concept of Hinduism in a communal sense as a way of combating the feared homogenization that capitalism may bring. This scholarship unsettles MaxWeber’s ...
Nov 1, 2022 · Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 484–486. Hindutva, in the new millennium, has evolved into a national political ideology. Rooted within the Brahminical social structures, its growth has been facilitated by neoliberal capitalism and global flows of culture and capital. This new assemblage of power demands the attention of intellectuals, since ...
Abstract. In early 20th century, Max Weber, in his seminal treatise ‘The religion of India — The sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism,’ argued that capitalism would remain weak in India because the ancient religions of India have no element of the Protestant ethic, a necessary element for the growth and development of capitalistic thoughts.
- Sushanta K. Mishra, Kumar Kunal Kamal
- 2014
Nov 25, 2020 · Abstract. Globalization has unleashed two concomitant forces in India since 1991: neoliberalism and private capitalism. Neoliberal globalization enabled India’s economic transition from state capitalism under a centralized plan regime (1951–1991) toward private capitalism that took the form of global capitalism (1991–).
- Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Dhar, Sayonee Majumdar
- 2020
Moreover, if capitalism were understood, from the first, as a transnational set of forces, India’s supposed marginality in its genesis becomes illusory. India played a key strategic role in the evolution of the global capitalist system enmeshed in the British Empire. This essay explores these other sides of capitalism’s history in India.
Feb 21, 2023 · The British colonial state and Christian missionaries posited Hinduism as a unitary “world religion” that displayed coherence and unity despite sectarian and regional variations. Indians interacted, argued, and responded to British authors over key religious issues such as image-worship, sati, tolerance, and conversion.
3 days ago · Hinduism, major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual.Although the name Hinduism is relatively new, having been coined by British writers in the first decades of the 19th century, it refers to a rich cumulative tradition of texts and practices, some of which date to the 2nd millennium bce or possibly ...
