In recent years, rapid socioeconomic changes in cities and small towns in India have sparked the local, national and transnational imaginations of writers and political analysts. Small towns are increasingly marked mushrooming institutes for computer training, Internet booths and satellite dishes-symbols of India’s high tech globalizing economy. Comfortable middle class housing colonies have sprouted up arrow the country and new models of cars have displaced the Ambassador, which was once an economic signifier of middle class status. India’s larger metropolises like Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) and Bangalore now aggressively seek the status of global cities. And their urban middle classes assertively claim a national visible role as the agents of globalization in India.
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