‘India’s new middle class is still struggling’

On young lower-middle-class women acting with agency even as workplaces continue to reproduce inequalities

- Majid Maqbool

How are middle-class women at the forefront of mediating a new class politics?

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about an emerging “new middle class” in India. But even as patterns of consumption change, as reflected in new lifestyles in urban India, most who supposedly belong to the new middle class are still struggling for secure lives.