The book takes an interdisciplinary approach in deconstructing nation-branding exercises in neoliberal India, utilizing the fetish as a critical device to demonstrate how postcolonial nation-building can become colonizing.

ranks among the world’s most misunderstood texts but Kumārila’s historic refutation allows to be read in its own text-historical context. This compelling, radically revolutionary re-reading of delineates a hermeneutic of humor indispensable to discerning its medicinal message.

responds to the need for a critical framework that is able to address the relationships between identities and contemporary globality. This book asks what role does South Asian diasporic fiction play in constructing narratives of globalization?

The book takes an interdisciplinary approach in deconstructing nation-branding exercises in neoliberal India, utilizing the fetish as a critical device to demonstrate how postcolonial nation-building can become colonizing.