{"product_id":"indias-middle-class-christiane-brosius-9780415544535","title":"India's Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being in contemporary urban India. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich in ethnographic material, the work is based on empirical case-studies, research material, and illustrations. Offering a model of how urban cosmopolitan India might be studied and understood in a transnational and transcultural context, the book takes the reader through three panoramic landscapes: new 'world-class' real estate advertising, a unique religious leisure site -- the Akshardham Cultural Complex, and the world of themed weddings and beauty\/wellness, all responses to India's new middle classes' tryst with cosmopolitanism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in sociology, South Asian studies, media studies, anthropology and urban studies as also those interested in religion, performance and rituals, diaspora, globalisation and transnational migration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christiane Brosius\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 041554453X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415544535\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011","brand":"Christiane Brosius","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136097497343,"sku":"9780415544535","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cfabe03-56db-418c-92c3-8c92ffd8fcc5.jpg?v=1770160492","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/indias-middle-class-christiane-brosius-9780415544535","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}