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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Amita Baviskar , Raka RayPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge India Weight: 1.050kg ISBN: 9780415677981ISBN 10: 041567798 Pages: 480 Publication Date: 30 April 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationAmita Baviskar is at Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi Raka Ray is at University of California, Berkeley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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