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Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India (Monumental Legacy Series) - Hardcover
Synopsis
This book describes the rise of a middle class in colonial India. Using Lucknow as a case study, the author demonstrates ways in which the making of the middle class in British india was closely tied to both 'modern' and 'traditional' imaginings and constructions of class, community, nation and gender relations.
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Review
Fractured Modernity is easier to read than many theoretical monographs, but it is definitely aimed at scholars and is probably most suitable at the graduate level and above. Nevertheless, this thought-provoking and original book deserves to reach a scholarly audience beyond specialists in India. (The Historian)
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