Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India
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1st ed.
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0195645626
Length
ix+209p., 22cm.
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This book maps the rise of the middle class as a social force in colonial India. Instead of seeing this class as constituted by social and economic standing, it argues for understanding the middle class as a category born out of ‘public-sphere’ politics. As cultural entrepreneurs in the colonial public sphere, educated men, and later women, carved out for themselves a position distinct from that of the existing Indian elite, the lower classes, and ultimately, ...
