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9780195674460

Fractured Modernity Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195674460

  • ISBN10:

    0195674464

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-04-14
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book describes the rise of a middle class in colonial India. Using Lucknow as a case study, the author demonstrates ways in which the making of the middle class in British india was closely tied to both 'modern' and 'traditional' imaginings and constructions of class, community, nation, and gender relations.

Author Biography

Sanjay Joshi is Associate Professor, Department of History, Northern Arizona University.

Table of Contents

Conventions in the Use of Indian Terms and Citations xii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(22)
Creating a Public: Emergence of a Middle Class in Colonial Lucknow
23(36)
An Uneasy Sangam: Gender and the Contradictions of Middle-class Modernity
59(37)
Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion, and the Middle Class
96(36)
Impermanent Identities: Limits of Middle-class Nationalisms
132(40)
Conclusion: Reflections on Fractured Modernity 172(16)
Bibliography 188(15)
Index 203

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