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India's Middle Class
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India's Middle Class

New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity
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This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-138-02038-2
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date04/02/2014
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 140 mm, Height 214 mm, Thickness 28 mm
Weight472 g
Article no.4425096
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A21956568
Product groupBU720
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