Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India

✍ Scribed by Sanjay Joshi

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Series: Monumental Legacy Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes the rise of a middle class in colonial India. Using Lucknow as a case study, the author demonstrates ways in which the making of the middle class in British india was closely tied to both 'modern' and 'traditional' imaginings and constructions of class, community, nation, and gender relations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
1. Creating a Public Emergence of a Middle Class in Colonial Lucknow......Page 36
2. An Uneasy Sangam Gender and the Contradictions of Middle-class Modernity......Page 72
3. Publicizing Religiosity Modernity, Religion and the Middle Class......Page 109
4. Impermanent Identities Limits of Middle-class Nationalisms......Page 145
Conclusions on Fractured Modernity......Page 185
Bibliography......Page 201
Index......Page 216