Part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, this reader exploresthe shifts in debates and discussions in the making of middle class in colonial India. It takes into account the different regions, languages, cultures, and occupations related to the study of middle class. INDICE: Introduction, Sanjay Joshi;; Section One: Framing The Middle Class,; 1.:. A Microscopic Minority, The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava;; 2.: A Cheap Shoddy Import, Aurobindo Ghosh;; 4.: A Class In Need Of Help, Jawaharlal Nehru;; Section Two: Debating The Middle Class,; 5.: The Bourgeoisie Comes Of Age, D. D. Kosambi;; 6.: The Middle Classes Of Colonial India: A Product Of British Benevolence, B. B. Misra;; 7.: The Myth Of A 'Westernized Middle Class', Michelguglielmo Torri;; 8.: A Pre-History Of The Middle Class?, Christopher Bayly;; 9.: The Subalternity Of A Nationalist Elite, Partha Chatterjee;; 10.: What About The Merchants? A Mercantile Perspective On The Middle Class Of Colonial India, Claude Markovits;; 11.: Consumption, Domesticity And The Idea Of The 'Middle Class' In Late Colonial Bombay, Prashant Kidambi;; Section Three: Gender, Caste And Religion In The Making Of Middle Class Modernity; 12.: Domesticity And Middle Class Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Bengal, Tanika Sarkar;; 13.: Limits Of The Bourgeois Model? Dipesh Chakrabarty;; 14.: Re-Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion And The Middle Class, Sanjay Joshi;; 15.: Middle Class And Secularization, Margrit Pernau;; 16.: One Step Outside Modernity:Caste In The Middle Class Imaginary, M. S. S. Pandian;; Section Four: WhitherMiddle Class Studies? The Middle Class And The Everyday World,; 17.: 'In Those Days There Was No Coffee': Consumption, Popular Culture And Middle Class Formation In Madras, A. R. Venkatachalapathy;; 18.: A Case Of Indian Exceptionalism: Cricket And The Middle Class In Colonial Bengal, Boria Majumdar;; Annotated Bibliography.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806382-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 382
- Fecha Publicación: 18/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés