TY - BOOK AU - Deshpande, Satish TI - Contemporary India : : a sociological view U1 - 303.40954 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi PB - Penguin Publishers KW - Social Change and Social Conditions--India N1 - Table of Contents: Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Squinting at Society Chapter 2. Mapping a Distinctive Modernity Chapter 3. The Nation as an Imagined Economy Chapter 4. Hindutva and its Spatial Strategies Chapter 5. Caste Inequalities in India Today Chapter 6. The Centrality of the Middle Class Chapter 7. Globalization and the Geography of Cultural Regions Notes Bibliography Index ER -