Within the Limits
Moral Boundaries of Class and Gender in Urban India
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ISBN:
9780199477425
Publication date:
23/10/2017
Hardback
248 pages
Price: 750.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199477425
Publication date:
23/10/2017
Hardback
248 pages
Amanda Gilbertson
Set against the backdrop of the south Indian city of Hyderabad, this book highlights the importance of moralized language of respectability and cosmopolitanism in the production of class and gender in India. The book charts how diverse understandings of the moral limits of middle-class being shape consumption patterns, education strategies, attitudes toward caste, shifting marriage ideals, and youth cultures of fashion and dating in the city.
Rights: World Rights
Amanda Gilbertson
Description
‘India’s ‘new’ middle classes have gained increasing prominence in media, political, and public imaginings since the liberalization of the economy in the 1990s. As a growing number of Indians living in an extraordinary variety of socio-economic circumstances are identifying as middle class, a concrete definition of this category remains elusive. Within the Limits explores what being ‘middle class’ means to those who identify as such.
Set against the backdrop of the south Indian city of Hyderabad, this work highlights the importance of moralized language of respectability and cosmopolitanism in the production of class and gender in India. The book charts how diverse understandings of the moral limits of middle-class being shape consumption patterns, education strategies, attitudes toward caste, shifting marriage ideals, and youth cultures of fashion and dating in the city.’
About the Author
Amanda Gilbertson has been at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since 2014, previously as a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences and currently as Lecturer in Youth and Contemporary India at the Australia India Institute.
Amanda Gilbertson
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Defining the Limits
1. Claiming the Moral Middle
2: Inculcating Cosmopolitanism
3: Cosmopolitan Castelessness
4: Respectable Women and Indian Families
5: Fashion, Passion, and Public Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Amanda Gilbertson
Features
- Highlights the centrality of morality to Indian middle-class identity
- Illustrates how class and gender inequalities intersects and get reproduced through everyday discourses and practices
- Explores new and emerging middle class identities in a rapidly changing post-liberalization economy such as India
Amanda Gilbertson
Review
‘Within the Limits gets to the heart of how India’s thorniest, most sensitive issues are woven into the daily fabric of “middle-class” life. Boldly taking on the contradictions of caste, class, and gender, Gilbertson shows how urban high school students—along with their families— chart their life courses, manage their aspirations, pick out clothes, and decide who and how to love. An incisive examination of neoliberal India’s lived complexities.’
Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA
‘Amanda Gilbertson's brilliant new book offers an exceptionally clear account of the moral, social and cultural practices of India's emerging middle class. It is a sparkling contribution to the anthropology and sociology of modern India.’
Craig Jeffrey, Director of the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
Description
‘India’s ‘new’ middle classes have gained increasing prominence in media, political, and public imaginings since the liberalization of the economy in the 1990s. As a growing number of Indians living in an extraordinary variety of socio-economic circumstances are identifying as middle class, a concrete definition of this category remains elusive. Within the Limits explores what being ‘middle class’ means to those who identify as such.
Set against the backdrop of the south Indian city of Hyderabad, this work highlights the importance of moralized language of respectability and cosmopolitanism in the production of class and gender in India. The book charts how diverse understandings of the moral limits of middle-class being shape consumption patterns, education strategies, attitudes toward caste, shifting marriage ideals, and youth cultures of fashion and dating in the city.’
About the Author
Amanda Gilbertson has been at the University of Melbourne, Australia, since 2014, previously as a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences and currently as Lecturer in Youth and Contemporary India at the Australia India Institute.
Reviews
‘Within the Limits gets to the heart of how India’s thorniest, most sensitive issues are woven into the daily fabric of “middle-class” life. Boldly taking on the contradictions of caste, class, and gender, Gilbertson shows how urban high school students—along with their families— chart their life courses, manage their aspirations, pick out clothes, and decide who and how to love. An incisive examination of neoliberal India’s lived complexities.’
Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA
‘Amanda Gilbertson's brilliant new book offers an exceptionally clear account of the moral, social and cultural practices of India's emerging middle class. It is a sparkling contribution to the anthropology and sociology of modern India.’
Craig Jeffrey, Director of the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Defining the Limits
1. Claiming the Moral Middle
2: Inculcating Cosmopolitanism
3: Cosmopolitan Castelessness
4: Respectable Women and Indian Families
5: Fashion, Passion, and Public Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
