About the Book: Shops and the Malls : A Sociological Exploration of Indian
Retail Business
Of recent, Retail globalization has come to dominate academic and political
discourse in India. The book provides to its readers coverage to the Indian
Retail Policy and its implications on different segments of the society such as,
traditional retailers, consumers and employees working in the modern retail
formats. The book also examines that how as a result of globalization and
economic restructuring, cities in India are transforming. The cities are being
forced to look at consumption and finance activities so as to compete in the
growing economic competition by construction of new consumption