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Subject(s)

• Middle class—India—History—21st century [Browse]
• Middle class families—India—Social conditions [Browse]
• Social mobility—India [Browse]
• India—Social life and customs—21st century [Browse]

Related name

• Donner, Henrike [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 53. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 53 [More in this series]

Summary note

Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India's middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a number of case studies, ranging from a historical account detailing the making of a savvy middle-class consumer in the late colonial period, to saving clubs among women in Delhi's upmarket colonies and the dilemmas of entrepreneurial families in Tamil Nadu's industrial towns.The book pays tribu

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Being Middle-class in India: A way of life; Copyright; Contents; Figures and table; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Masculinity, advertising and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940; 2 Gendered bodies, domestic work and perfect families: New regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles; 3 'Keeping in the family': Work, education and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists; 4 Cultural contrations and intergenerational relations: The consturction of selfhood among middle-class youth in Baroda
• 5 Globalization, neoliberalism and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata6 The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala: Doctors, social mobility and the middle classes; 7 Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi; 8 Zara hatke ('somewhat different'): The new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema; Index

ISBN

• 1-280-87365-5
• 1-136-51340-X
• 9786613714961
• 1-136-51339-6
• 0-203-14853-3

OCLC

• 804662471
• 801405352

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203148532

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