ABSTRACT

In a neo-liberalized era, the middle class is believed to play an influential role in shaping public responses to globalization and economic liberalization, attesting its presence as an autonomous actor with its own set of interests and political agency. Of late, the middle class and its new forms of social action/citizen activism has come to occupy a center stage in India. The chapter discusses what middle class is; secondly, how in India middle class exists and operates; and finally the chapter focuses on themes of what is middle class activism, international events–middle class activism, middle class activism in India. The chapter’s primary focus is on middle class activism.