The middle class in colonial India

Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Co

📁 Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class

✍ Utsa Ray 📂 Library 📅 2015 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic fem

Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle

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

✍ Sanjay Joshi 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

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 gen

The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India

📁 The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India

✍ Smriti Singh 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Routledge India 🌐 English

This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and changing socio-spatial dynamics in urban areas in the country.It looks at class as a socio-spatial category where class distinct

The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India

📁 The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India

✍ Smriti Singh 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Routledge India 🌐 English

This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and changing socio-spatial dynamics in urban areas in the country.It looks at class as a socio-spatial category where class distinct

The Middle Class in Colonial Malabar: A

📁 The Middle Class in Colonial Malabar: A Social History

✍ Sreejith K. 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Members of the middle class in colonial Malabar left behind a copious amount of writings. These are to be found, among other places, in magazines, autobiographies and diaries. This book explores the social history of the middle class in the region during the British period on the basis of t

The Indian Middle Class

📁 The Indian Middle Class

✍ Surinder S. Jodhka; Aseem Prakash 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and cultural moorings? The authors of this volume argue that the middle class has largely been understood as an ‘income/ economic category’, but the term has