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020			_a9780198874928 _qhbk.
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100			_aHuju, Kira, _91664584 _eauthor.
245			_aCosmopolitan elites : _bIndian diplomats and the social hierarchies of global order / _cKira Huju.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2023.
520			_a"Cosmopolitan Elites narrates the birth, everyday life, and fracturing of a Western-dominated global order from its margins. It examines diplomats of the elite Indian Foreign Service, many of whom were present at the founding of this order, set out to remake it in the name of a radically anti-colonial global subaltern, but often ended up seeking status within its hierarchies through social mimicry of its most powerful actors. This is a book about the struggles of belonging: it revisits what it takes to be a recognized member of international society and asks what the experience of historically marginalized actors inside the diplomatic club can tell us about the evident woes of global order today. In interrogating how Indian diplomats learned to live under a Westernized world order, it also offers a sociologically grounded reading on what might happen in spaces like India as the world transitions past Western domination. An awkward balancing act animates the order-making of India's cosmopolitan diplomats: despite a genuine desire to strive toward a postcolonial world founded on diversity, difference, and the symbolic representation of a global subaltern, there is a strong sense of a lingering caricature-like notion of a white, European-dominated homogenous club, to which Indian diplomats feel a deep-rooted and colonially embedded desire to belong. Cosmopolitanism operates inside this balancing act not as an international ethic upholding an equal, tolerant, or liberal global order, but rather as an elite aesthetic which presumes cultural compliance, diplomatic accommodation, and social assimilation into Western mores"--
650			_aIndian Foreign Service,
650			_aIndian diplomats
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