Modernity in India

List of figures vii

List of boxes viii

Preface ix

1 Understanding modernity: An outline of the main sociological perspectives 1

2 The colonial encounter in India: Towards a complex modernity 24

3 Conceptualizing development: The early modernisation model 47

4 India after independence: Community, identity, and nation 70

5 From village factions to regional parties: The democratising of caste in the field of electoral politics 93

6 Village India: From colonial idea to capitalist takeover 116

7 Public sector, LPG, and workers' struggles: An outline of the impact of state-driven capitalism on the working class 141

8 The middle class in India: Its colonial, post-independent, and contemporary forms 164

9 The family and the household: Changing social dynamics 185

10 The economic and cultural dimensions of social exclusion in India: Definitions, history, and contemporary practices 209

Index 232

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sociology of India;postcolonial studies;caste dynamics;neoliberal economic reforms;social exclusion theory;Indian middle class transformation;political identity formation in India