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read this book 12 years ago and came across my notes this morning I think that this book remains a very important work towards understanding the attitudes inclinations compulsions and impulses of our nation s middle class Here are the notesThe book argues that the lack of social concern of the Indian middle class is detrimental to the health of the nation and the class own long term interests The complete apathy towards the unwashed masses as the nation continues to march down the road to become a mere market or aggregation of demands can cause dangerous social upheavals in the future ExcerptsThe Relevance of BeginningsThe creation of a native elite in its own image was the most spectacular and enduring achievement of British colonialism in IndiaThe social segment from which these new beneficiaries came represented largely a continuity middle class Indians from an educated backgroundThe members of the nascent Indian middle class in the nineteenth century did not feel a sense of humiliation in collaborating with the agencies of British rule Indeedthey had acuired a stake in the perpetuation of the British ruleYet it the early Indian National Congress was essentially an upper and middle class affairThe freedom movement led by Gandhi involved the masses without empowering them Through their participation for the struggle for freedom acuired the profile of a mass movement but essentially the focus of power and control remained where they always have been with dominant elitesIt was than evident that both the Hindu and Muslim communities were inegalitarian and each preserved an elite segment that was less than inclined towards a genuine empowerment of the masses and the inevitable socio economic destabilization that this would involve The conjuring up of an external threat to the community enabled these vested interests to divert attention away from pressures from the internal restructuring of their communitiesThe Age of HopeFreedom came in 1947 but the nature of the entrenchment of the middle and upper classes under British rule and their leadership of the freedom movement ensured that the institutions built up during the colonial era remained largely intactFortunately for the middle class in India the freedom movement had generated a powerful ethical and intellectual legacy This legacy was symbolized in the compellingly charismatic personalities of Gandhi and NehruThese communal tolerance belief in parliamentary democracy romanticization of India s past etc were the elements that coalesced to form the ideological framework of the Indian middle class at the time of independenceSuch parameters of social interaction were linked with another aspect a conscious ceiling on material wants Material pursuits were subsumed in a larger framework that did not give them the aggressive primacy that they have acuired todayThe hold of the past ensured the continuity of traditional religious practices the aspiration to be modern resulted in these practices surviving only as a mechanical ritualThe middle class caught in the penumbra of the past and the present the traditional and the modern was unable to develop an authentic paradigm synthesizing bothIt is clear that almost immediately after independence the direction of the State policy was being dictated by middle class interests Perpetuation of English the education system that favoured the few etcThe End of InnocenceThe war with China in 1962 was the first serious blow to the easy confidence and sense of well being of the middle class Educated Indians had caught a glimpse of reality behind the comfort of illusions and suddenly the institutions and beliefs of the past seemed inadeuate when confronted with the uncertainties of the future Expectations appeared vulnerable nowThe first trend of importance was the visible retreat of ideology from public life and the corresponding transparency of the uest for power as an end in itself It had the potential for the most deleterious conseuences in the long run was the un ceremonial burial for the need for a society to have a commitment to some kind of ideological bindingThe Indian middle class propensity to abjectly capitulate before a paramount leader of which the apogee would be reached during the Emergency declared by Mrs Gandhi was thus directly related to the erosion of an ideological commitment as an effective countervailing forceAnother factor to critically influence middle class attitude and behaviour was the legitimization of corruption as an accepted and even inevitable part of societyThe trends we have discussed the retreat from idealism the reduced sensitivity to the poor and the legitimization of corruption coincided with a change in the character and structure of the middle class itselfthe new claimants wereweaned on the pragmatic realism of IndiraThe selective endorsement of some of Mrs Gandhi s actions even at a time when the JP movement had considerable support was not proof of how discriminating middle class was It was proof rather of its ideological rudderlessness where the only compass working was a perception of its own interests and expectationsThe middle class was willing to climb onto the moral platform to the extent that this platform could accommodate its discontents It was happy for instance if its anger against the rise in prices could be given a better projection through a moral critiue But it was unwilling to allow its endorsement of the moral to rein in its own proclivities to the contrary Shades of the support for the recent Anna agitation against corruptionThe obverse side of this authoritarian anarchic syndrome is the unualified adulation of a strong leader at the time of his emergence and the unconcealed glee at his discomfiture at the time of his downfall Psychology apart the essential reason for such wild swings of emotion and allegiance is the absence of an ideological mooringMiddle class Indians saw Rajiv Gandhi through the prism of their own needsThe truth is that under the garb of social justice the entire Mandal issue was an intra middle class struggle for the perks and peruisites that could be seized from the stateThe Inner LandscapeIt is a cliche to recall that Hinduism the religion as it is lived by its countless followers has no organizes church no one God no paramount religious text no codified moral laws and no single manual of prescribed ritual The predominant emphasis is on personal salvation a journey in which the individual is essentially alone with his karmas and his God There is nothing wrong with such an approach in purely spiritual termshowever in terms of the individuals relation to the society this very emphasis on the self as the centerpiece of spiritual endeavour tends to stunt the growth of a sense of involvement in and concern for the community as a wholeA pious Hindu will take a dip in the holy waters of the Ganga totally oblivious to the filth and garbage on and around the bathing ghatTemples in India will have their coffers overflowing with personal donations from the religiously active but few of the donors would see much spiritual merit in using the same money for alleviating the misery of the thousands of the visibly poor around themA second aspect of Hinduism of great relevance to our analysis is the absence in it of a strong and unambiguous single ethical centre There is nothing in Hinduism which categorically euates any action with sinIt accepts a moral relativism which refuses to be straitjacketed by simplistic notions of right and wrongThe absence of a strong moral imperative for social altruism had resulted under the tutelage of unethical leaders and opportunistic politics in a horribly bloated unconcern for society itself The end product was the acceptance of a certain kind of lifestyle insular aggressive selfish obsessed with material gain and socially callousDid the frenzied absorption in worldly pursuits and the overwhelming preoccupation with material acuisitions reduce the role of religion in the middle class person s life To some extent it did happen the freuency of and familiarity with religious ritual was reduced but paradoxically the need for the religious identity increased Breakdown of the extended family Induced a hankering for a sense of belonging to some transcendent institution which could resurrect a sense of communityThe complexes the average middle class person has about sex and its role in the society are a result of all these factors a past which is remembered or invoked to justify sexual license a recent heritage British and Mughal which considers the sexual urge wrong and associates it with guilt and the present which is invaded as it were by the expression of sex as vulgarity or as depicted in Western soap operas fantasy The writing on the WallThe essential point then is that the current wave of liberalization has deepened the tendency which the wealthy Indian already had to ignore the sufferings of the poor Once it becomes legitimate to ignore poverty the sense of community ceases to have a place in social lifeFor the truth is that the social insensitivity of the educated and the privileged Indian is writ large on the face of India whether the professed goal of the country is socialism or capitalism The new economic policies have accentuated the insensitivity and brought into sharp focus the psychological polarization between the worlds inhabited by the rich and the poorThe seminal uestion for the middle class is Can such a polarized world be sustained in perpetuity Or has the time come for this class in its own interests to move beyond the margins of elite vision If self interest a sentiment with which the middle class is not unfamiliar can jolt it to pause and reassess its strategies for its own benefit in the long run then several convincing examples can be given to indicate what is the right trackThe answer appears to be a conscious and uantum increase in voluntary activities outside government particularly in areas of education poverty eradication and health The first reaction of many in the middle class will be to dismiss such an idea as idealistic fantasizing But the proposal is not as unrealistic as it may sound The elite in the country have always had considerable influence on middle class aspirations Within the elite there are uite a fewthat demonstrate a much reuired sense of social purposeIf such examples of social concern by the corporate elite can be expanded manifold and replicated across the country and the government through appropriate policy incentives should actively encourage the effort it will send a powerful message of social activism to the millions of upwardly mobile middle class Indians who are particularly porous to variations of behaviour in the elite segments of the countryThe project here is the arousal of social concern in the long term interests of both the elite and the middle class Child 44 details Paperback pages com Customer reviews Great Indian Find helpful customer 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Watan ki fiker ker naadaan moosibat aanay wali haiTeri berbaadiyon kay mashwaray hai aasmaanon mayNa samjho gay to mit jaao gay ai Hindoostaan waaloTumhaari daastaan tak bhi na hogi daastaano n may IbalThis is how the book The Great Indian Middle Class by Pavan K Varma started I had many doubts clouding over my head my conscience was waging war between Randian selfishness against an individual s social relevance I could remember only one phrase that engaged in this tussle Middle Class That s why I didn t hesitate to grab that book from the shelf hiding beneath many other administrative reports and journals The book is about the much hyped the 30% of India which form the horses that apparently drives this country the Educated proud religious socially economically and politically conscious people which is called Middle class Most of us fall into this category This book is basically or I feel the first of its kind dwells into the lives of this class and tries to visualize the past present and future of India analyzing the mentality of this singularly powerless yet the most powerful class of this countryIndependence and a new IndiaIt starts with the birth of the class how the British to cut the cost and bring local involvements in local administrations created the breed which we call babus The well advanced British education was then a boon to the society that was very much divided on caste and religions Though this could never be clean and impartial as the British would have thought they got what they wanted An elite British educated intelligent individuals to take care of their administration level jobs The author then moves to the era of Independence struggle how the empowerment made middle class conscious of the need for Independence The idea of an organized Independence movement were born to such minds as it would be very apparently visible that all the independence leaders were British educatedin India and abroad The Indian congress consisted of Intellectuals like Nehru Patel etc the young bloods which fought with their small group against the British policies in a diplomatic way It then mentions how the Gandhian theory of mass movements helped the struggle in getting popular widespread support with the middle class from different corners of the country joining their hands Needless to mention the invention of nonviolent hartals lockouts boycotts etc which the British administration found hard to oppose fearing a widespread condemnation or a further escalation of situationsFrom Innocence to InsensitivenessAfter independence the Congress leaders with the support of this class comes to the power Though drained of all the energy they held in their youthful years in pre independence India they built the machinery schools defence Industries states constitutions etc or less in British structure which was considered very progressive in those times Nehru s visions of a democratic socialistic country now finds its hurdles well within in state How the division of federal powers to state took out much of the control from the hands of Center becomes and evident It uotes many such instances like the failure of land reforms in many parts of the country how the social fabric became a major hindrance in the path of the people how educational policies famines and poor public distribution systems pushed the societies into crisis The final nail in coffin was the defeat of 1962 war against the China over Aksai Chin the popular dreams of being a super power shattered that year The educated population was getting and exposed to the happenings around the world and how they moulded their mindset for an aim high strategy in most of the endevors The book also brushes through the roots to find out why there is a lack of social euanimity in the society The inevitable parts played by the Hinduismbeing the majority religion is stated in the book very well the religion which is mostly spread through the stories and epics often fails to justify the reality For eg Raama asking for Sita s fire test Krishna stealing the clothes of gopikas etc Moreover the religion instead of unifying the people divided them on castes Unlike Christian missionary activities Hinduism never preached or created any social upliftment activities until very late The tendency is mere to pray in temples and give money as dakshina There ends the social responsibility of a Hindu There is nothing different in any religion in that matter nowadaysThe flavours we likeThe key information the book tries to tell convey is on how the middle class have become and insensitive to happenings in the society The clause of Pride drives much of the class behaviour as it states tells though how much they believe in liberalization the idea of caste religion region language still hold them back in the dark ages The typical middle class dream is to get education then a job then marriage then children then retire Few of the middle class behaviours explained are the Resilient by choice how even after seeing and knowing about many issues and problems the public tend to fall resilient to it Like the take on corruption how well the public have learned to live within this enterprise There are many example Traffic etiuette public display of mannerism waste disposal etc are few things which the public have adopted as Indian rather than improving Another thing is the lack of social empathy as stated above a general insensitiveness towards pressing problems like poverty child labours domestic violence etc have drawn a big lines amongst societies The environmental degradation injustice etc are the things that burns the country yet the popular verdict is to chose silence Indian Pride A general inclination to empathize with those elements that gives pride to the individual is monumental minor things like Ambani becoming richest Indian in Forbes or a sonofasonofasonofan Indian getting nobel prize or boasting about the extinct glories of Indian cultures of bygone eras believing Indian culture to be better than western etc When the public starts empathising with such things the conflicts often become egoistic one fine example would be the IPL When Army and a group of people fight naturally the morally the public feels like supporting the ArmyWhy is middle class always stuck in Middle classThe middle class is pseudo class such a class doesn t exist It is a feeling of a perpetual deficiency of money that drives one to give that middle class feeling Buying a house a car kids educations etc are the monumental never ceasing burdens on the shoulders of an individual hence a person born to middle class planning to go through its age old route would always hesitate when it comes to money The idea of savings took birth then this concept found crores of money stashed in the saving account for an unclear future Now when the kid grows up he or she too would follow the same thing Further to that the pride thing traps them under the manufactured demands so they buy the decent car decent clothes admission in best school and thus finds them trapped under a perpetual race where the money is priority As a result the prosperity of the society or community or state takes the back seat Even when the people wants to do good things they cant of the fear that a change from the norms might become a social catastrophePolitics and usNow the biggest threat that the democracy of the country is facing is the popular contempt of the middle class towards the politics Every individual would love to argue how bad their politician is how corrupt he is etc The concept of democracy is by the people for the people but the middle class believes that it is By the government to the people Keeping aside the corruption and other politics the junta fancy in washing off their hands from the public responsibilities completely over to the government and its machinery offering not even a single effort in as much as possibleexcept the popular claim of Income tax remittance Complaints about bad sewage systems municipality not cleaning the roads traffic departments responsibility for the mess in the streets communal problems social evils etc At the same time while sitting in a velvet cushion closing the eyes and ears to the problems and injustice happening to the compatriots in the country Until the day the people realise their power and responsibility towards the society the democracy will remain autocratic and sooner or later it will boomerang backThe book ends with many positive things that have happened despite the smug from the middle class The advancement of technologies and the advent of NGOs have open a new avenue The absence of reformation policies in the society is now fulfilled by the presence of various NGOs and the connectivity through fast growing technology But again is it still keeping us away back into the velvet cushion There is time we are now living the age of information And examples to share was a famine in Orissa in 1970s when the population in a couple of villages dwindled following the famine but the Indians never saw that news But now though such situations though still arises and people still die we cannot give the excuses of being ill informed Sometimes to see such news we have to look beyond the page 3 news papers Start thinking about your country the calamities are brewingThe signs of your destruction are written in the skiesIf you don t understand it now one day everything will be gone IndiansIn the annals of the history there wont be even a trace of you story

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• Great Indian Middle Class
• Pavan K. Varma
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• 17 March 2019
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