Sara Dickey
In this book, the anthropologist Sara Dickey argues that globalisation is radically transforming Indians’ perception of class. She focusses on four individuals living in the second-tier city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a domestic worker and an English teacher. Drawing on over thirty years of fieldwork, she examines a nation in flux, bombarded with images of middle-class consumers navigating the currents of capitalism and the inequality it produces.
Permanent Black, 280 pages, Rs 795