Contested capital : rural middle classes in India / Maryam Aslany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aslany, Maryam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--India.

Middle class.

Rural population.

India.

Rural population--India.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"The expansion and transformation of Asian economies is producing class structures, roles and identities that could not easily be predicted from other times and places. The industrialisation of the countryside, in particular, generates new, rural middle classes which straddle the worlds of agriculture and industry in complex ways. Their class position is improvised on the basis of numerous influences and opportunities, and is in constant evolution. Enormous though the total rural middle-class population is, meanwhile, it remains invisible to most scholars and policymakers. Contested Capital is the first major work to shed light on an emerging transnational class comprised of many hundreds of millions of people. In India, the 'middle class' has become one of the key categories of economic analysis and developmental forecasting. The discussion suffers from one major oversight: it assumes that the middle class resides uniquely in the cities. As this book demonstrates, however, more than a third of India's middle class is rural, and 17% of rural households belong to the middle class. The book brings this vast and dynamic population into view, so confronting some of the most crucial neglected questions of the contemporary global economy"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Trajectory of the Indian Middle Class: Its Size and Geographical Variations

2. In Search of the Rural Middle Classes: From Village Stratification to Rural Household Variations

3. Marx: Capital, Labour and the Rural Middle Classes

4. Weber: Marketable Capital, Status and the Rural Middle Classes

5. Bourdieu: Cultural Capital, Self-perception and the Middle-class Identity in Rural India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Aslany, Maryam. Contested capital

ISBN:

9781108836333

110883633X

OCLC:

1155082149