The Middle Class in Colonial India

Herausgeber: Joshi, Sanjay

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Produktbeschreibung

Part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, this reader explores the shifts in debates and discussions in the making of middle class in colonial India. It takes into account the different regions, languages, cultures, and occupations related to the study of middle class.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780198063827
• ISBN-10: 0198063822
• Artikelnr.: 32305999

Autorenporträt

Sanjay Joshi is Associate Professor, Department of History, Northern Arizona University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction, Sanjay Joshi;
* Section One: Framing The Middle Class,
* 1.: . A Microscopic Minority, The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava;
* 2.3.: A Cheap Shoddy Import, Aurobindo Ghosh;The Carriers Of
Enlightenment, Freedom, Progress And Prosperity, The Bengalee;
* 4.: A Class In Need Of Help, Jawaharlal Nehru;
* Section Two: Debating The Middle Class,
* 5.: The Bourgeoisie Comes Of Age, D. D. Kosambi;
* 6.: The Middle Classes Of Colonial India: A Product Of British
Benevolence, B. B. Misra;
* 7.: The Myth Of A 'Westernized Middle Class', Michelguglielmo Torri;
* 8.: A Pre-History Of The Middle Class?, Christopher Bayly;
* 9.: The Subalternity Of A Nationalist Elite, Partha Chatterjee;
* 10.: What About The Merchants? A Mercantile Perspective On The Middle
Class Of Colonial India, Claude Markovits;
* 11.: Consumption, Domesticity And The Idea Of The `Middle Class' In
Late Colonial Bombay, Prashant Kidambi;
* Section Three: Gender, Caste And Religion In The Making Of Middle
Class Modernity
* 12.: Domesticity And Middle Class Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century
Bengal, Tanika Sarkar;
* 13.: Limits Of The Bourgeois Model? Dipesh Chakrabarty;
* 14.: Re-Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion And The Middle
Class, Sanjay Joshi;
* 15.: Middle Class And Secularization, Margrit Pernau;
* 16.: One Step Outside Modernity: Caste In The Middle Class Imaginary,
M. S. S. Pandian;
* Section Four: Whither Middle Class Studies? The Middle Class And The
Everyday World,
* 17.: `In Those Days There Was No Coffee': Consumption, Popular
Culture And Middle Class Formation In Madras, A. R.
Venkatachalapathy;
* 18.19.: A Case Of Indian Exceptionalism: Cricket And The Middle Class
In Colonial Bengal, Boria Majumdar;Middle-Class Cinema, M. Madhava
Prasad;
* Annotated Bibliography.