Globalisation and India: An Idea of the Nation

Globalization has been playing key role in changing the world in many ways. It changes not only scientific view points of the world, but it has affected humanities in a major way. Globalization questioned and contested the idea of Nation and Local in terms of internationalization. In the country like India, where the idea of the nation is already in the flux,there is a need to elaborate the idea of the nation in this context. The present paper explores the idea of Indianness and tries to locate India as nation and community and class in context of Gidden’s idea of Globalisation, Benedict Anderson’s idea of Imagined Communities and Partha Chatterjee’s critique of Anderson. The paper speculates varied cultural reasons and underlying social dynamics that triggered the complications in the idea of Nation in contemporary times. By combining analytical perspectives of Globalisation, Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies regarding globalization and identity, the present paper elaborates various theories of Nation and critiques the same.