Abstract
Acknowledging that AID's work is influential – and that it has a large following within the diasporic and expatriate community in the United States and India – this essay shows how the language and practice of ‘giving back’ under a rubric of liberal multiculturalism and humanism is still deeply steeped in neoliberal discourses and practices that make assumptions about power, individual agency, and privacy. Classified as a country with ‘soft currency,’ India is dependent on the very economic exchanges – such as free market trading and the outsourcing of labor to the West – against which the organization structures its philosophy. Such contradictions exist side by side, and the identities that emerge from these contradictions are what this research defines as global nationalism and pastoral identities.
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