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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]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Henrike Donner and Geert de Neve
• Masculinity, advertising, and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940 / Douglas E. Haynes
• Gendered bodies, domestic work, and perfect families : new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles / Henrike Donner
• "Keeping it in the family" : work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists / Geert De Neve
• Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations : the construction of selfhood among middle class youth in Baroda / Margit van Wessel
• Globalisation, neoliberalism, and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata / Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
• The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala : doctors, social mobility, and the middle classes / Caroline Wilson
• Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi / Anne Waldrop
• Zara hatke ("somewhat different") : the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema / Rachel Dwyer.

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ISBN

• 9780415671675 (hardback)
• 0415671671 (hardback)
• 9780203148532 (ebook)
• 0203148533 (ebook)

LCCN

2011024480

OCLC

731372956

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