This edited volume is dedicated to the study of social, economic, and political elites in India. It's contributors address some fundamental questions regarding India's social and economic elites, the change in their composition in recent years, their relationship with each other and with the rest of the social body, and the role of caste in the configuration and reconfiguration of social and economic elites by analysing elite discourses andrepresentations.
This edited volume is dedicated to the study of social, economic, and political elites in India. It's contributors address some fundamental questions regarding India's social and economic elites, the change in their composition in recent years, their relationship with each other and with the rest of the social body, and the role of caste in the configuration and reconfiguration of social and economic elites by analysing elite discourses andrepresentations.
Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Jules Naudet is an alumnus of Sciences Po Paris and of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Hindi) and holds a doctorate in Sociology. His doctoral research focused on a comparative analysis of the experience of upward social mobility in France, in India and in the United-States.
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* Foreword * Preface and Acknowledgements * Introduction * Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet * Section I: Merit, Privilege and Entitlements * 1. The Meritocrats: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste * Ajantha Subramanian * 2.Heirs, Corporate Aristocrats, and "Meritocrats": The Social Space of Top CEOs and Chairmen in India * Jules Naudet, Adrien Allorant, and Mathieu Ferry * 3. Issues of Entitlement * Saurabh Dube * Section II: Indian Elites and The Global Scene * 4. Artifacts and Artifices of the Global: Practices of US Architects in India's National Capital Region * Namita Dharia * 5. Kula Gauravam, Transnational Migration, and Class Mobility: Reconfiguring the Dominant Caste Status in Coastal Andhra * Sanam Roohi * 6. 'Take This Land': A Brief History of the Karnataka Golf Association * Patrick Inglis * Section III: Women at the Top: Gender Intersections * 7. Reproducing Elite Lives: Women in Aggarwal Family-Businesses * Ujithra Ponniah * 8. For Things To Remain (Sort Of) The Same, Everything Must Change: India's First Generation Professional Elites and The Surreptitious Reproduction Of Hierarchy * Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen * 9. The Secret Lives of Money: Understanding Elite Women of Delhi * Parul Bhandari * Index * About the Editors and Contributors
* Foreword * Preface and Acknowledgements * Introduction * Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet * Section I: Merit, Privilege and Entitlements * 1. The Meritocrats: The Indian Institutes of Technology and the Social Life of Caste * Ajantha Subramanian * 2.Heirs, Corporate Aristocrats, and "Meritocrats": The Social Space of Top CEOs and Chairmen in India * Jules Naudet, Adrien Allorant, and Mathieu Ferry * 3. Issues of Entitlement * Saurabh Dube * Section II: Indian Elites and The Global Scene * 4. Artifacts and Artifices of the Global: Practices of US Architects in India's National Capital Region * Namita Dharia * 5. Kula Gauravam, Transnational Migration, and Class Mobility: Reconfiguring the Dominant Caste Status in Coastal Andhra * Sanam Roohi * 6. 'Take This Land': A Brief History of the Karnataka Golf Association * Patrick Inglis * Section III: Women at the Top: Gender Intersections * 7. Reproducing Elite Lives: Women in Aggarwal Family-Businesses * Ujithra Ponniah * 8. For Things To Remain (Sort Of) The Same, Everything Must Change: India's First Generation Professional Elites and The Surreptitious Reproduction Of Hierarchy * Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen * 9. The Secret Lives of Money: Understanding Elite Women of Delhi * Parul Bhandari * Index * About the Editors and Contributors
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