India's Middle Class Enrico M. Novelli Recent progress in biomedical research

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India's Middle Class Enrico M. Novelli Recent progress in biomedical researchThis 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. Rich 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