Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Reihe: Monumental Legacy Series
Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India
Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Reihe: Monumental Legacy Series
ISBN: 978-0-19-567446-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
'...convincing and sophisticated intervention in current debates about the nature of modernity in India and the foundations of the Indian state.---- Barbara D Metcalf, The American Historical Review
'...a highly original book of much broader significance than its ostensible focus...suggests.' -- Sandria B Freitag, H-Asia'...a substantial monograph on a largely unexplored dimension in the social history of colonial north India.' -- Tirthankar Roy, Business History Review'...this thought-provoking and original book deserves to reach a scholarly audience beyond specialists in India.' -- A Martin Wainwright, The Historian
'...is a refreshing new book on the dynamics of middle class politics...a must read for those interested in the social history of North India.' -- Anshu Malhotra, Seminar
'...a good book: substantively rich, theoretically well informed, and based on a variety of sources in English, Hindi and Urdu.' -- Ian J Kerr, History: A Review of New Books
This book studies the rise of middle class as a social force in colonial north India. Arguing that it emerged out of 'public-sphere' politics, the author demonstrates how the making of the class was closely tied to new imaginings and constructions of class, community, nation, and gender relations.
Contents
- Conventions in the Use of Indian Terms and Citations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- One Creating a Public: Emergence of a Middle Class in Colonial Lucknow
- Two An Uneasy Sangam: Gender and the Contradictions of Middle-class Modernity
- Three Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion, and the Middle Class
- Four Impermanent Identities: Limits of Middle-class Nationalisms
- Conclusion: Reflections on Fractured Modernity
- Bibliography
- Index
Zielgruppe
Post-graduate students of history and historians and sociologists and social anthropologists interested in the study of middle class in north India.
