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This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and definition of the Middle Class in India. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India - the software professionals, emblematic of the 'new India'.
List of contents
Introduction 1. The Class ‘in-between’ 2. Economic Reforms and the New Middle Class 3. Profiling ‘Software Professionals’ 4. Reading the Class Politically 5. New Middle Class Activism. Conclusion: The Making of Consumer Citizen. Bibliography.
About the author
Anshu Srivastava is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India. Within the broad area of interest in politics of development and labour in India, she has several national and international publications. In past few years, her research engagement has been with the politics of the ‘new middle class’ in contemporary India focusing on software professionals.
Summary
This volume explores the emergence, evolution, and definition of the Middle Class in India. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India ? the software professionals, emblematic of the 'new India?.
