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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779133203321

Titolo

Being middle-class in India : a way of life / / edited by Henrike Donner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-87365-5

1-136-51340-X

9786613714961

1-136-51339-6

0-203-14853-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 53

Altri autori (Persone)

DonnerHenrike

Disciplina

305.5/509540905

Soggetti

Middle class - India - History - 21st century

Middle class families - India - Social conditions

Social mobility - India

India Social life and customs 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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