Elite and everyman :
Baviskar, Amita Ed.
Elite and everyman : the cultural politics of the Indian middle classes - New Delhi Routledge 2011 - xii,468p.
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations vii
Glossary ix
Acknowledgements xi
1. Introduction 1
Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray
Who are the middle classes? Economy, politics and history
2. The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's
Middle Classes: Their Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization 27
E. Sridharan
3. Hegemony and Inequality: Theoretical Reflections on India's 'New' Middle Class 58
Leela Fernandcs
4. The Spectre of Comparisons: Studying the Middle Class of Colonial India 83
San jay Joshi
5. From Landed Class to Middle Class: Rajput Adaptation in Rajasthan 108
Sitsannc Hoebcr Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph
6. Are Rich Rural Jats Middle-class? 140
Roger Jeff cry Pairicia Jeff cry and Craig Jeffrey
Being and becoming middle-class: Work, domesticity and consumption
7. Software and the 'New' Middle Class in the New India 167
Carol Upadhy
8.Gender, the IT Revolution and the Making of a Middle-class India 193
Smitha Radhakrishnan
9. The Middle-class Child: Ruminations on Failure 220
Nita Kumar
10. The Middle Classes at Home 246
Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray
11. The Sexual Character of the Indian Middle Class: Sex Surveys, Past and Present 271
Patricia Uberoi
12. Privatization, Profit and the Public: The Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms Working Live 300
Riickim Ganguly-Scrase and Timothy J. Scmse
Middle-class politics, citizenship and the public sphere
13. The Obscenity of Censorship: Rethinking a Middle-class Technology 327
William Mazzarella
14. Urban Spaces, Disney-divinity and the Moral Middle Classes in Delhi 364
Sanjay Srivastava
15. Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois
Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets 391
Ainita Baviskar
Bibliography 4 19
About th.e Editors 451
Notes on Contributors 453
Index 459
9780415677981
305.550954 / BAV
Elite and everyman : the cultural politics of the Indian middle classes - New Delhi Routledge 2011 - xii,468p.
CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations vii
Glossary ix
Acknowledgements xi
1. Introduction 1
Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray
Who are the middle classes? Economy, politics and history
2. The Growth and Sectoral Composition of India's
Middle Classes: Their Impact on the Politics of Economic Liberalization 27
E. Sridharan
3. Hegemony and Inequality: Theoretical Reflections on India's 'New' Middle Class 58
Leela Fernandcs
4. The Spectre of Comparisons: Studying the Middle Class of Colonial India 83
San jay Joshi
5. From Landed Class to Middle Class: Rajput Adaptation in Rajasthan 108
Sitsannc Hoebcr Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph
6. Are Rich Rural Jats Middle-class? 140
Roger Jeff cry Pairicia Jeff cry and Craig Jeffrey
Being and becoming middle-class: Work, domesticity and consumption
7. Software and the 'New' Middle Class in the New India 167
Carol Upadhy
8.Gender, the IT Revolution and the Making of a Middle-class India 193
Smitha Radhakrishnan
9. The Middle-class Child: Ruminations on Failure 220
Nita Kumar
10. The Middle Classes at Home 246
Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray
11. The Sexual Character of the Indian Middle Class: Sex Surveys, Past and Present 271
Patricia Uberoi
12. Privatization, Profit and the Public: The Consequences of Neoliberal Reforms Working Live 300
Riickim Ganguly-Scrase and Timothy J. Scmse
Middle-class politics, citizenship and the public sphere
13. The Obscenity of Censorship: Rethinking a Middle-class Technology 327
William Mazzarella
14. Urban Spaces, Disney-divinity and the Moral Middle Classes in Delhi 364
Sanjay Srivastava
15. Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: Bourgeois
Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi's Streets 391
Ainita Baviskar
Bibliography 4 19
About th.e Editors 451
Notes on Contributors 453
Index 459
9780415677981
305.550954 / BAV