India’s New Middle Class and the Critical Activist Milieu

Simin Fadaee
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Simin Fadaee: Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Journal of Developing Societies, 2014, vol. 30, issue 4, 441-457

Abstract: One manifestation of India’s recent transformations and rapid economic growth has been the emergence of a new group referred to as the “new middle class.†The relatively recent and growing literature on this topic represents the new middle class as a relatively homogenous social group with specific lifestyles and politics. The main objective of this article is to critically engage with these homogenizing assumptions. Based on original research, I introduce presence of a group within the new middle class – critical activist milieu – who in their work and lifestyle are contentious and explicitly reject the bourgeoisie values and attitudes that are widely ascribed to the Indian new middle class.

Keywords: India; liberalization; new middle class; NGOs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X14545583

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