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020			_a9781138903920
082			_a305.550 BAV
100			_aBaviskar, Amita, editor.
245			_aElite and Everyman _b: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes _c/ edited by Amita Baviskar and Raka Ray
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Routledge India _c, 2016.
300			_axii, 468 p. _c; 24 cm.
490			_aRoutledge India paperbacks
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aCulture and globalization -- India.
655			_aPolitical culture -- India.
700			_aRay, Raka, editor.
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