A Social-Cultural Perspective of the New Middle Classes in India: An Introduction

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dc.contributor.authorChowdhury, Debasreeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-24T07:18:24Z
dc.date.available2020-09-24T07:18:24Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description.abstractOne of the most significant countenances of South Asian modernity is New Indian Middle Class and their Culture. This earlierIndian middle class was committed to both traditions and modernity in an anti-colonial sense and consistent in serving the highintellectual and bureaucratic positions in a state-governed welfare economy and secular nation-state. After 1990s liberalization,the NMC became the focus of attention due to its socio-economic mobility, socio-cultural and political influence and consumerpotential. The purpose of the present article is to demonstrate that the emerging NMC is relatively an unexplored andcomparatively new contextual urban reality and a group which is fluid and still emerging. Through an analysis of the NMC andits economic and socio-cultural distinctiveness, the article shows its emergence and ongoing transformation on the backdrop ofthe mid-1980s and the 1990s neo-liberalization. It is to be understand that the class or classes, under concern is/are assumed tobe less aware of class in traditional theoretical sense, rather more aware of their images of perceivable/embodied ‘culture(s)’ or‘lifestyle(s)’. In this paper author try to review the history and the emerging issues within the broad subject in a way that willbe discernible to the larger target audiencesen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsResearch Fellow (UGC/NET), Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, West Bengal, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationChowdhury Debasree. A Social-Cultural Perspective of the New Middle Classes in India: An Introduction. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies. 2019 Jun; 6(2): 8-14en_US
dc.identifier.issn2519–7908
dc.identifier.issn2348–0343
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/203032
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherMedical Council of Indiaen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber2en_US
dc.relation.volume6en_US
dc.source.urihttps://www.ijims.com/uploads/7f9fc87f93a6759d8ba82.pdfen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberalizationen_US
dc.subjectNew Middle classen_US
dc.subjectprofessionalsen_US
dc.subjectmiddle class predicament and development.en_US
dc.titleA Social-Cultural Perspective of the New Middle Classes in India: An Introductionen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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