Today India's middle class numbers more than 250 million people and is growing rapidly. Public reports have focused mainly on the emerging group's consumer pote

This book is one of the first ethnographic studies to examine the complexities of lifestyles of the the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the new mille

This book analyses India’s middle class by recognising the diversity within the class, the people, their practices, and the production of spaces. It explores

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

This volume explores the emergence, evolution and definition of the middle class in India. As a class created as the interpreters between the colonial rulers an