Beyond Consumption

List of Figures. List of Tables. Notes on the Contributors. Preface. Abbreviations.1. Contextualising Indiaâs New Middle Class: Intersectionalities and Social Mobility Part I: Social Mobility and the Making of New Middle Class 2. Risk, Trust and Social Networks: A Study among Middle Class Nair Families near Technopark, Kerala 3. Muslim Middle Class in India: Size, Diversity, and Correlates 4. Dalit Desires, Middle Class-ness and the City of Surat Part II: Middle Class, Urban Poor, and Migrants: A Complex Interface 5. The Middle Class and the Migrant: Contention in the City 6. In the Pursuit of Middle Class-ness: Exploring the Aspirations and Strategies of the Urban Poor in Neoliberal Delhi 7. Politics of Dark Rooms and Neurotic Urbanity through Padmanabhanâs Lights Out Part III: Middle Class in the Regional Landscape 8. The Kashmiri Middle Class and its Everyday Politics 9. Of Imported SUVs and Buying the âLast Supperâ in Milan: âNew Middle Classâ and its Crisis of Hegemony in Indiaâs Northeast 10. The âThreshold Peopleâ: Narrating Middle Class Lives in Neoliberal Kolkata 11. Doing Good, Being Political: Middle Class Bhadralok Narratives from Neoliberal India Part IV: New Middle Class: Exploring Technology, Identity, and Spaces 12. âCyborgsâ or âHouse elvesâ? WhatsApp Mothering in a Greater Mumbai Suburb 13. Work-from-home for Bangaloreâs New Middle Class Women: No Future âWorkplaceâ for Women? 14. âThe One-Dimensional Manâ: Unravelling Identity of a New Indian Subject. Index.