Mapping the Elite : Power, Privilege, and Inequality

Surinder S Jodhka

ISBN 10: 0199491070 / ISBN 13: 9780199491070

Published by Oxford University Press Okt 2019, 2019

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Neuware - This edited volume is dedicated to the study of social, economic, and political elites in India. It's contributors address some fundamental questions regarding India's social and economic elites, the change in their composition in recent years, their relationship with each other and with the rest of the social body, and the role of caste in the configuration and reconfiguration of social and economic elites by analysing elite discourses andrepresentations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mapping the Elite : Power, Privilege, and Inequality
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Okt 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199491070
• ISBN 13: 9780199491070
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 218W x 145H x 25D millimeters 218 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 454 grams

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Synopsis

This edited volume is dedicated to the study of social, economic, and political elites in India. It's contributors address some fundamental questions regarding India's social and economic elites, the change in their composition in recent years, their relationship with each other and with the rest of the social body, and the role of caste in the configuration and reconfiguration of social and economic elites by analysing elite discourses and representations and what they reveal of their social inscription in contemporary India. The editors have sorted this book into three broad themes. The first theme concerns elite spaces which explores the uneasiness of elites to handle public and private spaces and interests. The second theme concerns the trajectories of particular elite groups such as the dominant caste called the Kammas of Andhra Pradesh, the Jats of Uttar Pradesh, and Urban elites. The third and final theme concerns elite lives and practices of diverse elite groups. This book is addressed to not only the scholar community interested in the sociology of India's elites, but to any reader interested in knowing how recent social and economic change in India affects the lives and trajectories of its elites.

About the Author

Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems,. School of Social Sciences. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,Jules Naudet, Research Fellow, CNRS Paris

Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Jules Naudet is an alumnus of Sciences Po Paris and of the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Hindi) and holds a doctorate in Sociology. His doctoral research focused on a comparative analysis of the experience of upward social mobility in France, in India and in the United-States.