Maryam Aslany

Contested Capital (eBook, PDF)

Rural Middle Classes in India

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Produktbeschreibung

It explores the formation of India''s rural middle class, which rests on a complex, and often contradictory, set of processes that began unfolding with growing industrialisation in rural areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108883481
• Artikelnr.: 70911321

Autorenporträt

Maryam Aslany is a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and an Associate Researcher at Paris Diderot University. Her research focuses on theories of class, emerging middle classes, rural capitalism and political economy of climate adaptation in South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and maps
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Foreword Barbara Harriss-White
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The problem of the 'rural middle class(es)'
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
Conclusion. Understanding the rural middle classes
Appendices
References
Index.