Elite and Everyman (eBook, PDF)

The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes
Redaktion: Baviskar, Amita; Ray, Raka

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the middle classes in multiple sites of social action, this book looks at the historical evolution of these classes - their changing relationships with colonial power, the Indian state and other social groups - as well as their influence in shaping contemporary cultural politics in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000087277
• Artikelnr.: 60575813

Autorenporträt

Amita Baviskar is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Raka Ray is Professor of Sociology and South and Southeast Asia Studies, and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction/Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray
Who are the middle classes? Economy, politics and
2. The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's Middle Classes: Their Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization/E. Sridharan
3. Hegemony and Inequality: Theoretical Refl ections on India's 'New' Middle Class/Leela Fernandes
4. The Spectre of Comparisons: Studying the Middle Class of Colonial India/Sanjay Joshi
5. From Landed Class to Middle Class: Rajput Adaptation in Rajasthan/Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph
6. Are Rich Rural Jats Middle
class?/Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey
Being and becoming middle
class: Work, domesticity and
7. Software and the 'New' Middle Class in the 'New India'/Carol Upadhya
8. Gender, the IT Revolution and the Making of a Middle
class India/Smitha Radhakrishnan
9. The Middle
class Child: Ruminations on Failure/Nita Kumar
10. The Middle Classes at Home/Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray
11. The Sexual Character of the Indian Middle Class: Sex Surveys, Past and Present/Patricia Uberoi
12. Privatization, Profi t and the Public: The Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms on Working Lives/Ruchira Ganguly
Scrase and Timothy J. Scrase
Middle
class politics, citizenship and the public
13. The Obscenity of Censorship: Rethinking a Middle
class Technology/William Mazzarella
14. Urban Spaces, Disney
divinity and the Moral Middle Classes in Delhi/Sanjay Srivastava
15. Cows, Cars and Cycle
rickshaws: Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets/Amita Baviskar
Bibliography
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index.