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Elaborate the salient features and the role of middle class in India’s democracy and development.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Social Classes in India

India's middle class is an anomaly: it was manufactured by a colonial state rather than thrown up by industry. B. B. Mishra held that it arose from changes in law and public administration rather than from economic development — an origin that still explains its institutional power and political detachment.

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  • Salient features
  • Role in India's democracy
  • Role in development
  • The critique
  • Conclusion

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