Fractured Modernity
Subtitle: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India (Monumental Legacy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 19, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780195674460
First sentence: This chapter examines the processes by which men with little more than educational or professional qualifications and/or literary ability, were able to dictate new norms of social and cultural conduct, and initiate modes of modern politics in colonial India, which ultimately made them the political heirs of the Raj.