India’s Rise as an Emerging Economy and the Impact on her Consciousness

Authors

  • Luke G Christie
  • Savariah Xavier Y C
  • Ralph Thangaraj

Abstract

‘The race for the ‘last instance’ is between economicsand power.’- GayathriSpivak

The success of India in the 21st century will be the political will and spiritual resilience of her leaders who are voted to power by a majority of people who belong to the middle and bottom of the economic pyramid. If India is an ancient civilization as Mahatma Gandhi once quipped, we are equally a post-colonial state that has had experienced the brunt of oppression, suppression, resistance and migration. The country in the age of digitalization is subtly subject to a neo-colonial capitalism and the very idea of Independence has not solved any problems for the country today. We find rampant poverty; low levels of illiteracy against the ideal of superstructures in the form of large scale organizations that offer employment but are also responsible for economic exploitation and land grab cases. In 1991, 25 years since India has opened up her economy to the globe and much progress has been accomplished as she has to accommodate views that are global and cosmopolitan which is being twice removed from that of pre-Independence. The crux of my argument will be to discuss economic governance, political will, corporate governance, farmer suicides in the wake of neo- colonialism, neo-capitalism and neo-liberalism with identities being shaped and fashioned accordingly that reveals a people and how much is being re-invented and re-constructed as the validity of the post-post-colonial in the throes of emerging from an ancient civilization being rooted in tradition and spirituality becomes the topic of choice in all post-colonial states.

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2020-01-26

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