Middle-Class Values in India and Western Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032652733 / Miękka / 2024 / 224 str.

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.