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India’s New Middle Class and the Critical Activist Milieu

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  • Simin Fadaee

    (Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

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One manifestation of India’s recent transformations and rapid economic growth has been the emergence of a new group referred to as the “new middle class.†The relatively recent and growing literature on this topic represents the new middle class as a relatively homogenous social group with specific lifestyles and politics. The main objective of this article is to critically engage with these homogenizing assumptions. Based on original research, I introduce presence of a group within the new middle class – critical activist milieu – who in their work and lifestyle are contentious and explicitly reject the bourgeoisie values and attitudes that are widely ascribed to the Indian new middle class.

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  • Simin Fadaee, 2014. "India’s New Middle Class and the Critical Activist Milieu," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 30(4), pages 441-457, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jodeso:v:30:y:2014:i:4:p:441-457
    DOI: 10.1177/0169796X14545583
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    1. Nishant Shah, 2012. "Resisting Revolutions: Questioning the radical potential of citizen action," Development, Palgrave Macmillan;Society for International Deveopment, vol. 55(2), pages 173-180, June.
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