The Questionable Middle Class: Upward Mobility, Sociocultural Capital, and Entrenched Hierarchies in "New" India

Baas, Michiel

The Questionable Middle Class: Upward Mobility, Sociocultural Capital, and Entrenched Hierarchies in "New" India - Journal of Asian Studies 2024 - 962-979

This article examines what the idea of a new or changing India signifies in the way it is experienced from a middle-class perspective. While the often-used adjectives of lower, new, and upper in terms of middle-class belonging seem to indicate economic di

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Middle Class
Social Mobility
Urban
Capital