1st Edition
Middle-Class Values in India and Western Europe
Preface
Introduction
The Rise of the Middle Class in India & Western Europe
1. Middle Class and Secularization: The Muslims of Delhi in the Nineteenth Century
2. Merchants, Entrepreneurs and the Middle Class in the Twentieth Century
3. ‘Bürgertum’ and ‘Bürgerlichkeit’: A class and its Values
Class Formation in the Twentieth Century
4. The Social Character of the Indian Middle Class
5. Middle-class Values and the Creation of a Civil Society
6. The ‘Grandes Ecoles’ in France: from Republican to Meritocracy to Noblesse d’Etat
7. The Changing Structure of German Society and the Transformation of German Bourgeois Culture
Values and Orientations
8. Middle-class Formation and the Cultural Construction of Gender in Urban India
9. Dalit Middle Class Hangs in the Air
10. Changing Political Orientations of the Middle Classes in India
11. Politics of India’s Middle Classes
12. Middle-class Values and the Changing Indian Entrepreneur
Biography
Imtiaz Ahmad is former Professor of Political Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Helmut Reifeld is India representative at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, New Delhi.
