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Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class

The Caravan
01 August, 2020

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Michiel Baas

The author, an anthropologist, delves into the world of Indian gyms, the class barriers and notions of masculinity that characterise these spaces, and how economic growth has altered ideas about the ideal male body in popular culture. 

Context, Westland Books, Rs 699, 328 pages