01417nam a22002057a 4500 20260605125444.0 260605b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781138903920 305.550 BAV Baviskar, Amita, editor. Elite and Everyman : The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes / edited by Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray New Delhi : Routledge India , 2016. xii, 468 p. ; 24 cm. Routledge India paperbacks This book examines the middle classes — who they are and what they do — and their influence in shaping contemporary cultural politics in India. Describing the historical emergence of these classes, from the colonial period to contemporary times, it shows how the middle classes have changed, with older groups shifting out and new entrants taking place, thereby transforming the character and meanings of the category. The essays in this volume observe multiple sites of social action (workplaces and homes, schools and streets, cinema and sex surveys, temples and tourist hotels) to delineate the lives of the middle classes and show how middle-class definitions and desires articulate hegemonic notions of the normal and the normative. Culture and globalization -- India. Political culture -- India. Ray, Raka, editor. VC OFFICE 68888 68888 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-05 0 305.550 BAV VC557 2026-06-05 12:55:57 2026-06-05 VC OFFICE Books Received from VC office