Contested Capital: Rural Middle Classes in India Rural Middle Classes in India
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 15719
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108836333
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book revises assumptions long made about the urban character of the middle class in India, arguing that about a third of India’s middle class is actually rural. Previous deabes in political economy and rural sociology about capitalist transformations had scarcely mentioned the possibility that rural middle classes were emerging. The book is both empirically and conceptually ambition. It examines India through Marxist, Weberian and Bourdieusian perspectives. The research is based on 18 months of field research as well as new methodological approaches to quantitative analysis, thereby grounding direct observation in empirical data.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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