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How has the New Economic Policy (1991) affected the lifestyle and life-chances of New middle class in India?

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  • Social Classes in India

The New Economic Policy of 1991 did not create India's middle class; it remade what membership of it means. Leela Fernandes (India's New Middle Class, 2006) argues that the "newness" of the post-reform middle class lies in a new ideology of consumption and market confidence, not a new social base. The two halves of the…

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  • The conceptual frame: life chances
  • Lifestyle: the visible transformation
  • Life-chances: the uneven transformation
  • Critique
  • Conclusion

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