Fractured Modernity
Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India
Sanjay Joshi(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-19-567446-0 (ISBN)
Description
'...convincing and sophisticated intervention in current debates about the nature of modernity in India and the foundations of the Indian state.---- Barbara D Metcalf, The American Historical Review '...a highly original book of much broader significance than its ostensible focus...suggests.' -- Sandria B Freitag, H-Asia'...a substantial monograph on a largely unexplored dimension in the social history of colonial north India.' -- Tirthankar Roy, Business History Review'...this thought-provoking and original book deserves to reach a scholarly audience beyond specialists in India.' -- A Martin Wainwright, The Historian '...is a refreshing new book on the dynamics of middle class politics...a must read for those interested in the social history of North India.' -- Anshu Malhotra, Seminar '...a good book: substantively rich, theoretically well informed, and based on a variety of sources in English, Hindi and Urdu.' -- Ian J Kerr, History: A Review of New Books This book studies the rise of middle class as a social force in colonial north India.
Arguing that it emerged out of 'public-sphere' politics, the author demonstrates how the making of the class was closely tied to new imaginings and constructions of class, community, nation, and gender relations.
Arguing that it emerged out of 'public-sphere' politics, the author demonstrates how the making of the class was closely tied to new imaginings and constructions of class, community, nation, and gender relations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Post-graduate students of history and historians and sociologists and social anthropologists interested in the study of middle class in north India.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-567446-0 (9780195674460)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
CONVENTIONS IN THE USE OF INDIAN TERMS AND CITATIONS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; ONE CREATING A PUBLIC: EMERGENCE OF A MIDDLE CLASS IN COLONIAL LUCKNOW; TWO AN UNEASY SANGAM: GENDER AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF MIDDLE-CLASS MODERNITY; THREE PUBLICIZING RELIGIOSITY: MODERNITY, RELIGION, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS; FOUR IMPERMANENT IDENTITIES: LIMITS OF MIDDLE-CLASS NATIONALISMS; CONCLUSION: REFLECTIONS ON FRACTURED MODERNITY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX