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Discuss the salient features of ‘new middle class’ in India.

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  • Social Classes in India

The ‘new middle class’ names the post-liberalisation formation whose members own little property but command marketable credentials — in Max Weber's terms, a distinct market situation yielding distinct life chances. Leela Fernandes (India's New Middle Class, 2006) treats it as a politically constructed category defined by consumption and by private-sector, English-speaking work. Its features are…

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