Being Middle-class in India：A Way of Life

Contributors in anthropology, history, sociology, communication, and development studies describe the diverse lifestyles of the middle class in India today, in this collection of eight papers from a July 2007 conference held at the University of Sussex. Readers will gain new perspectives on middle-class femininity in New Delhi, the construction of selfhood among middle-class youth in Baroda, the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema, and work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists. A chapter advertising and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940, includes b&w historical advertisements. Editor Donner teaches Indian Studies at Georg-August University, Germany. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Henrike Donner is currently Professor for Indian Society and Culture at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August Universitat, Gottingen, Germany. Her research interests include urban anthropology, gender and kinship.