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Examine the causes and consequences of growing size of urban middle class.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Social Classes in India

The urban middle class is India's most visible social formation and its least representative. It grew with the forces that built the modern Indian city, and it has reshaped household life, urban space and public provision.

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