Joshi, Sanjay, 1962-

Fractured modernity : making of a middle class in colonial North India / Sanjay Joshi. - New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2001. - ix, 209 p. : 22 cm.

Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Pennsylvania).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-202) and index.

Machine generated contents note: ONE -- Creating a Public: Emergence of a Middle Class in Colonial Lucknow -- Two -- An Uneasy Sangam: Gender and the Contradictions of Middle-class -- Modernity -- THREE -- Publicizing Religiosity: Modernity, Religion, and the Middle Class -- FOUR -- Impermanent Idenitities: Limits of Middle-class Nationalisms -- CONCLUSION -- Reflections on Fractured Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index.

With special reference to Lucknow, India.

0195645626

Library of Congress -- New Delhi Field Office Rs495.00

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Middle class--India.

HT690.I4 / J67 2001

305.5509 / JOF