Café culture in Pune
Subtitle: being young and middle class in urban India
By: Teresa Platz Robinson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Delhi, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780198099437
Subjects: Youth; Civilization; Western influences; Lifestyles; Middle class
Description: 'Café Culture in Pune' is an ethnographic snapshot, taken in 2008, tracing the effects of globalization from the perspective of young middle class urbanites in post-liberalization Pune, India. Documenting with meticulous detail their life world, from clothing to hanging out, friendship, dating, education and marriage, it captures new forms of socializing, consumption, self-improvement and relationship-management.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Durham University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Café culture --; title: Clothing --; title: Morality of Indian conviviality I : the old way --; title: Morality of Indian conviviality II : friendship amongst the cafe culture --; title: Education : Indian success stories --; title: Dating, sex, marriage.