Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-324).

Contents :
Introduction, Sanjay Joshi
Section One: Framing The Middle Class
Chapter 1. A Microscopic Minority, The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava
Chapter 2. A Cheap Shoddy Import, Aurobindo Ghosh
Chapter 3. The Carriers Of Enlightenment, Freedom, Progress And Prosperity, The Bengalee
Chapter 4. A Class In Need Of Help, Jawaharlal Nehru

Section Two: Debating The Middle Class
Chapter 5. The Bourgeoisie Comes Of Age, D. D. Kosambi
Chapter 6. The Middle Classes Of Colonial India: A Product Of British Benevolence, B. B. Misra
Chapter 7. The Myth Of A 'Westernized Middle Class', Michelguglielmo Torri
Chapter 8 A Pre-History Of The Middle Class?, Christopher Bayly
Chapter 9. The Subalternity Of A Nationalist Elite, Partha Chatterjee
Chapter 10. What About The Merchants? A Mercantile Perspective On The Middle Class Of Colonial India, Claude Markovits
Chapter 11. Consumption, Domesticity And The Idea Of The `Middle Class' In Late Colonial Bombay, Prashant Kidambi

Section Three: Gender, Caste And Religion In The Making Of Middle Class Modernity
Chapter 12. Domesticity And Middle Class Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Bengal, Tanika Sarkar
Chapter 13. Limits Of The Bourgeois Model? Dipesh Chakrabarty
Chapter 14. Re-Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion And The Middle Class, Sanjay Joshi
Chapter 15. Middle Class And Secularization, Margrit Pernau
Chapter 16. One Step Outside Modernity: Caste In The Middle Class Imaginary, M. S. S. Pandian

Section Four: Whither Middle Class Studies? The Middle Class And The Everyday World
Chapter 17. `In Those Days There Was No Coffee': Consumption, Popular Culture And Middle Class Formation In Madras, A. R. Venkatachalapathy
Chapter 18. A Case Of Indian Exceptionalism: Cricket And The Middle Class In Colonial Bengal, Boria Majumdar
Chapter 19. Middle-Class Cinema, M. Madhava Prasad

Annotated Bibliography
Introduction, Sanjay Joshi;
Section One: Framing The Middle Class,
1. . A Microscopic Minority, The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava;
2. A Cheap Shoddy Import, Aurobindo Ghosh;
4. A Class In Need Of Help, Jawaharlal Nehru;
Section Two: Debating The Middle Class,
5. The Bourgeoisie Comes Of Age, D. D. Kosambi;
6. The Middle Classes Of Colonial India: A Product Of British Benevolence, B. B. Misra;
7. The Myth Of A 'Westernized Middle Class', Michelguglielmo Torri;
8. A Pre-History Of The Middle Class?, Christopher Bayly;
9. The Subalternity Of A Nationalist Elite, Partha Chatterjee;
10. What About The Merchants? A Mercantile Perspective On The Middle Class Of Colonial India, Claude Markovits;
11. Consumption, Domesticity And The Idea Of The `Middle Class' In Late Colonial Bombay, Prashant Kidambi;
Section Three: Gender, Caste And Religion In The Making Of Middle Class Modernity
12. Domesticity And Middle Class Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century Bengal, Tanika Sarkar;
13. Limits Of The Bourgeois Model? Dipesh Chakrabarty;
14. Re-Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion And The Middle Class, Sanjay Joshi;
15. Middle Class And Secularization, Margrit Pernau;
16. One Step Outside Modernity: Caste In The Middle Class Imaginary, M. S. S. Pandian;
Section Four: Whither Middle Class Studies? The Middle Class And The Everyday World,
17. `In Those Days There Was No Coffee': Consumption, Popular Culture And Middle Class Formation In Madras, A. R. Venkatachalapathy;
18. A Case Of Indian Exceptionalism: Cricket And The Middle Class In Colonial Bengal, Boria Majumdar;
Annotated Bibliography.