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This book depicts the emergence of knowledge society across rural and urban spaces and among cross sections of social collectivities in India. It analysis the new economic momentum and socio-cultural milleu as set in motion with the emergence of this new phenomenon. The ensuing impact on the pre-existing facets of social identity and marginality, and the processes of construction of new social identities therein are analysed critically. This book delinates both the hope and despair, and identifies the scope and conditions of alternative choice and liberation for the people within the emerging socio-economic order of this new society.
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