| Description |
1 online resource (481 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Who are the middle classes? Economy, politics and history -- 2. The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Classes: Their Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization -- 3. Hegemony and Inequality: Theoretical Reflections on India's 'New' Middle Class -- 4. The Spectre of Comparisons: Studying the Middle Class of Colonial India -- 5. From Landed Class to Middle Class: Rajput Adaptation in Rajasthan |
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6. Are Rich Rural Jats Middle-class? -- Being and becoming middle-class: Work, domesticity and consumption -- 7. Software and the 'New' Middle Class in the 'New India' -- 8. Gender, the IT Revolution and the Making of a Middle-class India -- 9. The Middle-class Child: Ruminations on Failure -- 10. The Middle Classes at Home -- 11. The Sexual Character of the Indian Middle Class: Sex Surveys, Past and Present -- 12. Privatization, Profit and the Public: The Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms on Working Lives -- Middle-class politics, citizenship and the public sphere |
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13. The Obscenity of Censorship: Rethinking a Middle-class Technology -- 14. Urban Spaces, Disney-divinity and the Moral Middle Classes in Delhi -- 15. Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets -- Bibliography -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ray, Raka
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| ISBN |
9781000087277 |
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1000087271 |
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