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1. Being Middle-class in India

   A Way of Life

   Edited by Henrike Donner

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   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...

   Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Meaning of the Local

   Politics of Place in Urban India

   Edited by Geert de Neve, Henrike Donner

   By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the 'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is associated with transnationalism,...

   Published February 9th 2011 by UCL Press