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100			_aBaviskar Amita
245			_aElite and everyman : The cultural politics of the Indian middle classes
260			_aNew Delhi _bRoutledge _c2016
300			_a468p _cxi
365			_b Rs. 695
505			_aSynopsis : 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.
650			_a1. Middle Class - Economic Conditions - India2. MIddle Class - Political Activity - Civilization3. Middle Class - Soical Life & Customs
700			_aRay Raka _a
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