The middle class in India: a social formation or political actor?
Political Power and Social Theory
ISBN: 978-0-85724-325-6, eISBN: 978-0-85724-326-3
Publication date: 23 December 2010
Abstract
In the past three decades India has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. Per capita income has increased fourfold, from $229 in 1980 to $318 in 1990 to nearly $900 in 2010 (constant 2000 dollars). Although there is growing evidence of increases in income inequality, standard measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient are still considerably less in India than in other Brazil, Russia, India, Chinas (BRICs) (or the United States). Consequently this rapid growth has led to a substantial expansion of India's middle class (and a concomitant decline in poverty).
Citation
Kapur, D. (2010), "The middle class in India: a social formation or political actor?", Go, J. (Ed.) Political Power and Social Theory (Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 21), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 143-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-8719(2010)0000021011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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