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How does André Béteille justify ‘middle class’ in India?

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  • Social Classes in India

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André Béteille is sceptical of loose talk about the middle class: economists, he objects, homogenise it without examining its structural composition, and there is no one middle class in India but many. Yet he defends it as a real sociological category, and those grounds are the answer.

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