Middle-Class Values in India and Western Europe

Herausgeber: Ahmad, Imtiaz; Reifeld, Helmut

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the distinctive attributes of the middle classes in France, Germany and India. Drawing on historical experiences in both western Europe and colonial India, the contributors to this volume try to understand the common inheritance of these newly emerging middle classes and the social and political impact they have had on their societies of origin. Each study is based on detailed research and combines both theoretical and empirical material. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138095625
• ISBN-10: 1138095621
• Artikelnr.: 48850939

Autorenporträt

Imtiaz Ahmad is former Professor of Political Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Helmut Reifeld is India representative at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
The Rise of the Middle Class in India & Western Europe
1. Middle Class and Secularization: The Muslims of Delhi in the Nineteenth
Century
2. Merchants, Entrepreneurs and the Middle Class in the Twentieth Century
3. 'Bürgertum' and 'Bürgerlichkeit': A class and its Values
Class Formation in the Twentieth Century
4. The Social Character of the Indian Middle Class
5. Middle-class Values and the Creation of a Civil Society
6. The 'Grandes Ecoles' in France: from Republican to Meritocracy to
Noblesse d'Etat
7. The Changing Structure of German Society and the Transformation of
German Bourgeois Culture
Values and Orientations
8. Middle-class Formation and the Cultural Construction of Gender in Urban
India
9. Dalit Middle Class Hangs in the Air
10. Changing Political Orientations of the Middle Classes in India
11. Politics of India's Middle Classes
12. Middle-class Values and the Changing Indian Entrepreneur