ISBN:
9781138903920
,
1138903922
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 468 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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23 cm.
Parallel Title:
Reproduction of (manifestation) Elite and everyman
DDC:
305.550954
Keywords:
Middle class Social aspects
;
Middle class Political aspects
;
Middle class Political activity
;
Group identity
;
Classes moyennes Activité politique
;
Identité collective
;
Society
;
Middle class Political aspects
;
Group identity
;
Middle class
;
Middle class Economic conditions
;
Middle class Political activity
;
Middle class Social life and customs
;
Society
;
India
Abstract:
"This book examines the middle classes -- who they are and what they do -- and their influence in shaping contemporary cultural politics in India. Describing the historical emergence of these classes, from the colonial period to contemporary times, it shows how the middle classes have changed, with older groups shifting out and new entrants taking place, thereby transforming the character and meanings of the category. The essays in this volume observe multiple sites of social action (workplaces and homes, schools and streets, cinema and sex surveys, temples and tourist hotels) to delineate the lives of the middle classes and show how middle-class definitions and desires articulate hegemonic notions of the normal and the normative"--Publisher
Note:
Contributed articles.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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