ABSTRACT
Chetan Bhagat is a best-selling author who addresses the anglophone class largely created by the new economy. His books suggest that India’s anglophones are themselves hierarchically differentiated – those with affinities in the humanities (who constitute the traditional liberal elite) and those with a technical/managerial background, who are newly ascending but gaining ground in a milieu in which neoliberal agendas are being voiced and promoted and placed at different levels. This chapter examines both his fiction and his non-fiction with the latter revealing very different concerns vis-à-vis the nation than those exhibited by the liberal voices.
