Maryam Aslany

Contested Capital (eBook, PDF)

Rural Middle Classes in India

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Produktbeschreibung

The expansion and transformation of Asian economies is producing class structures, roles and identities that could not easily be predicted from other times and places. The industrialisation of the countryside, in particular, generates new, rural middle classes which straddle the worlds of agriculture and industry in complex ways. Their class position is improvised on the basis of numerous influences and opportunities, and is in constant evolution. Enormous though its total population is, meanwhile, the rural middle class remains invisible to most scholars and policymakers. Contested Capital is the first major work to shed light on an emerging transnational class comprised of many hundreds of millions of people. In India, the ''middle class'' has become one of the key categories of economic analysis and developmental forecasting. The discussion suffers from one major oversight: it assumes that the middle class resides uniquely in the cities. As this book demonstrates, however, more than a third of India''s middle class is rural, and 17 per cent of rural households belong to the middle class. The book brings this vast and dynamic population into view, so confronting some of the most crucial neglected questions of the contemporary global economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108883481
• Artikelnr.: 70911321

Autorenporträt

Maryam Aslany is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and an Associate Researcher at Paris Diderot University. Her research focuses on theories of class, emerging middle classes, rural capitalism and political economy of climate adaptation in South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and maps
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Foreword Barbara Harriss-White
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The problem of the 'rural middle class(es)'
1. Trajectory of the Indian middle class: its size and geographical variations
2. In search of the rural middle classes: from village stratification to rural household variations
3. Marx: capital, labour and the rural middle classes
4. Weber: marketable capital, status and the rural middle classes
5. Bourdieu: cultural capital, self-perception and the middle-class identity in rural India
Conclusion. Understanding the rural middle classes
Appendices
References
Index.