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July, 2003
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Contents

Editor's Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1
Introduction: Globalization and Diasporic Exchange by John Hawley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	3
The Claims of Globalization Theory: Some Contexts and Contestations by Revathi Krishnaswamy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	18
Some (Red) Notes on Globalization, Imperialism, and Labor in Transnationalism by Amrohini Sahay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	33
From Gunboats to Transgenic Seed: The Western Quest for Tools of Enforced Global Dependency by Geoffrey Kain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	48
Self-Preservation is the First Law of Nature: Conserving the Cutural Diversity in India’s Biological Resources by Johanna Gibson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	62
“The Other Side of History”: The Politics of Representation in Nationalist Fiction by Rumina Sethi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	76
Cosmopolitanism, Class and Gender in The Shadow Lines by Nagesh Rao. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	95
Interrogating the “Fourth Space”: Re-imagining “Nation,” “Culture,” and “Community” in South Asian Diasporic Fiction by Shumona Dasgupta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	116
“Three Kings of Disorient”: A Globalized Search for Home in The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Randy Boyagoda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	130
Geography of Difference: The Changing Image of Bombay in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction by Scott McClintock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	144
Hindu Buying/Hindu Being: Hindutva Online and the Commodity Logic of Cultural Nationalism by Sangita Gopal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	161
Transnational Transgressions: Reading Mira Nair’s Kama Sutra and Deepa Mehta’s Fire in a Global Economy by Kanishka Chowdhury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	180
Representing the Poetics of Resistance in Transnational South Asian Women’s Fiction and Film by Jaspal K. Singh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	202
Theorizing South Asian America: The Praxis of Locating Communities Locally and Globally by Anumpama Jain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	220
“Is Sanjay Dutt the Scariest Man Alive?”: Bollywood, Globalization, and Fundamentalisms by Sangeeta Mediratta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	237
Book Reviews Jasbir Jain, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	255
Jaina C. Sanga, Abandon: A Romance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	259
Cristiane Carneiro, Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	262
Lavina D. Shankar, Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States . . . . . . . . .	265
Harleen Singh, The Impressionist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	269
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	272

Last Reviewed: November 14, 2007