02034nam a22002057a 4500999001700000020001800017082002100035245011600056260003200172300001400204520130500218546001201523650004301535650002901578650003201607700002601639700002301665942001201688952012801700  c27551d27551  a9781032250137  a305.550954bBEY-  aBeyond consumption:bIndia's new middle class in the Neo-Liberal Times/cEdited by Manisha k jha and Pushpender  aNew York:bRoutledge,c2022  axix,269p.  a
This book analyses India’s middle class by recognising the diversity within the class, the people, their practices, and the production of spaces.

It explores the economic and social lives of the new middle class, expanding the areas of inquiry beyond consumption in post-liberalisation India and its intersectionalities with gender, caste, religion, migration, and other socioeconomic markers in various cities across the country. The book interrogates the meanings and perceptions of social mobility, growth, consumerism, technology, social identity, and development and examines how they can be emancipatory or subjugating in different contexts. It engages with the new entrants in the middle class, particularly from the marginalised sections, their struggles, insecurities, anxieties, agency, and experiences. The personal, emotive, and psychic dimensions of social mobility have been dealt with in the larger context of socioeconomic settings. The book crosses disciplinary and spatial boundaries and uses a variety of methodologies to provide perspectives on several unexplored or underexplored areas of India’s new middle class.

This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, economics, development studies, public policy, social work, and South Asian studies.
  aEnglish  aMiddle class--Social conditionszIndia  aInternal migrantszIndia  aTechnology and womenzIndia  aJha, Manish keeditor  aPushpendraeeditor  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2022-03-22e7g726.35l0o305.550954 BEY-p52213r2022-03-22 00:00:00v995.00w2022-03-22yBK