Whatever happened to class? : reflections from South Asia / edited with an introduction by Ronald J. Herring and Rina Agarwala.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herring, Ronald J., 1947-

Agarwala, Rina, 1973-

Louis A. Duhring Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social classes--South Asia.

Social classes.

Working class--South Asia.

Working class.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

ix, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction : restoring agency to class : puzzles from South Asia / Ronald J. Herring and Rina Agarwala

On the decline of class analysis in South Asian studies / Vivek Chibber

Was the Indian labor movement ever co-opted? : evaluating standard accounts / Emmanuel Teitelbaum

Workers' organizations in Pakistan : why no role in formal politics? / Christopher Candland

From work to welfare : a new class movement in India / Rina Agarwala

Middle-class activism and the politics of the informal working class : a perspective on class relations and civil society in Indian cities / John Harriss

Why did "Operation Cremate Monsanto" fails? : science and class in India's great terminator-technology hoax / Ronald J. Herring

Hegemonic aspirations : new middle class politics and India's democracy in comparative perspective / Leela Fernandes and Patrick Heller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-205) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.

ISBN:

9780415454681

0415454689

OCLC:

166382870