Middle class values in India and Western Europe / edited by Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut Reifeld.
"Middle-class Values in India and Western Europe discusses the distinctive attributes of the middle classes in France, Germany and India. The construction of new norms of respectability is a universal feature of the middles classes, though their rhetoric has varied in different societies. Drawi...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; The Rise of the Middle Class in India and Western Europe; 1. Middle Class and Secularization: The Muslims of Delhi in the Nineteenth Century; 2. Merchants, Entrepreneurs and the Middle Classes in India in the Twentieth Century; 3. 'Bürgertum' and 'Bürgerlichkeit': A Class and its Values; Class Formations 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 Meritocracy to Noblesse d'Etat7. The Changing Social 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