Social Class in Urban Indian
Author: Edwin D. Driver
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789004081062
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Author: Edwin D. Driver
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789004081062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aloo E Driver
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9004676740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sara Dickey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2016-07-14
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0813583942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.
Author: Christiane Brosius
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1136704841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is one of the first ethnographic studies to examine the complexities of lifestyles of the the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the new millennium. It reveals an original theory on cosmopolitan Indianness and urbanisation in the age of globalisation.
Author: Ranvinder Singh Sandhu
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Published: 2003-10-22
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together papers by well-known scholars that look at various aspects of the urbanization phenomenon in India, including the folk-urban continuum, social stratification, neighbourhood and family, and slum-dwellers and migrants./-//-/This book is one of the Indian Sociological Society: Golden Jubilee Volumes.
Author: Amanda Gilbertson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-12-21
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0199091625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia’s ‘new’ middle classes have gained increasing prominence in media, political, and public imaginings since the liberalization of the economy in the 1990s. As a growing number of Indians living in an extraordinary variety of socio-economic circumstances are identifying as middle class, a concrete definition of this category remains elusive. Within the Limits explores what being ‘middle class’ means to those who identify as such. Set against the backdrop of the south Indian city of Hyderabad, this work highlights the importance of moralized language of respectability and cosmopolitanism in the production of class and gender in India. The book charts how diverse understandings of the moral limits of middle-class being shape consumption patterns, education strategies, attitudes toward caste, shifting marriage ideals, and youth cultures of fashion and dating in the city.
Author: David Sancho
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1317663942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector. Since 1991, this important new market in private English-medium schools, along with an explosion of private coaching centres, has transformed the lives of children and their families, as the attainment of the best education nurtures the aspirations of a growing number of Indian citizens. Set in urban Kerala, the book discusses changing educational landscapes in the South Indian city of Kochi, a local hub for trade, tourism, and cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyles. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines the way education features as a major way the transformation of the city, and India in general, are experienced and envisaged by upwardly-mobile residents. Schooling is shown to play a major role in urban lifestyles, with increased privatisation representing a response to the educational strategies of a growing and heterogeneous middle class, whose educational choices reflect broader projects of class formation within the context of religious and caste diversity particular to the region. This path-breaking new study of a changing Indian middle class and new relationships with educational institutions contributes to the growing body of work on the experiences and meanings of schooling for youths, their parents, and the wider community and thereby adds a unique, anthropologically informed, perspective to South Asian studies, urban studies and the study of education.
Author: P. Gihar
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9788171417278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents: Urbanisation and Urban Growth in India: A Socio-Historical Analysis, Research Methodology, Research Profile and Procedure of the Study, Spatial Structure in Urban India, Social Structure in Urban India, Urbanisation and Spatio-Social Structure: A Synchronic Relationship, Conclusion.
Author: W. S. K. Phillips
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 156
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sara Dickey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2016-07-14
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0813583934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.