Globalisation and identity: case of the lepchas in Sikkim
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2015-03
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Social Trends
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Roy, Sanjay K.
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University of North Bengal
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Kumari, V. (2015). Globalisation and identity: case of the lepchas in Sikkim. Social Trends, 2(1), 134–149. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3527
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Kumari, Vandana
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The process of social change in India under the influence of external
forces like Westernization, modernization and the globalization has
produced vast sociological literatures covering the philosophical
understanding of Indian society encountering with the political
economy of modernization and globalization. The process has
provoked a wide-range debate among the academic community on the
issues of national character, the idea of nationalism and
romanticisation of fragmented identities. The journey of democracy,
development and the celebration of plural identities in postcolonial
India has paradoxical in character in which both the resistance and
co-operation between the local and national is the reality. This paper
is an attempt to conceptualize the nature of identity formation, the
value of cultural symbol and the local subsistence as found in case of
Lepcha Movement in the state of Sikkim, particularly when
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2
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2348-6538
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134 - 149