‘Shining Indians’: Diaspora and Exemplarity in Bollywood

Commercial Hindi cinema plays a central role in the negotiation of national identity. For decades, the expatriate Indian served as a counter-example for acceptable behaviour, a living testimony of inappropriateness. In the mid-1990s, following the liberalization of the Indian economy, the rise of Hi...

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Main Author: Ingrid Therwath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2010-12-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/3000