1st Edition
Beyond Consumption India’s New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times
List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on the Contributors. Preface. Abbreviations.1. Contextualising India’s New Middle Class: Intersectionalities and Social Mobility Part I: Social Mobility and the Making of New Middle Class 2. Risk, Trust and Social Networks: A Study among Middle Class Nair Families near Technopark, Kerala 3. Muslim Middle Class in India: Size, Diversity, and Correlates 4. Dalit Desires, Middle Class-ness and the City of Surat Part II: Middle Class, Urban Poor, and Migrants: A Complex Interface 5. The Middle Class and the Migrant: Contention in the City 6. In the Pursuit of Middle Class-ness: Exploring the Aspirations and Strategies of the Urban Poor in Neoliberal Delhi 7. Politics of Dark Rooms and Neurotic Urbanity through Padmanabhan’s Lights Out Part III: Middle Class in the Regional Landscape 8. The Kashmiri Middle Class and its Everyday Politics 9. Of Imported SUVs and Buying the ‘Last Supper’ in Milan: ‘New Middle Class’ and its Crisis of Hegemony in India’s Northeast 10. The ‘Threshold People’: Narrating Middle Class Lives in Neoliberal Kolkata 11. Doing Good, Being Political: Middle Class Bhadralok Narratives from Neoliberal India Part IV: New Middle Class: Exploring Technology, Identity, and Spaces 12. ‘Cyborgs’ or ‘House elves’? WhatsApp Mothering in a Greater Mumbai Suburb 13. Work-from-home for Bangalore’s New Middle Class Women: No Future ‘Workplace’ for Women? 14. ‘The One-Dimensional Man’: Unravelling Identity of a New Indian Subject. Index.
Biography
Manish K Jha is professor of community organisation and development practice, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His research interests include migration, disaster response, middle classes, poverty, social policy, and social justice.
Pushpendra is professor and chairperson of the Patna Centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. His research interests include agrarian relations, informal labour, migration, and social policy.
