ANTH 370 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY INDIA (3) KHARE
M 1400-1630


The course discuses selected major socio-cultural, religious, political aspects of and issues in India since independence, with a focus on the changing position and reach of Indian modernity and its conflicting social values and forces. An examination of the sizeable Indian middle class will be juxtaposed to the rising caste-class-religious conflicts on one side, and to a globalizing, "rising India" on the other, with an expanding role for the Indian mass media, television and films. Completes Second Writing Requirement.