ABSTRACT
Trees are lined up on the other side of the street, which seems like the boundary wall of a different property. An intercom is installed where the gate meets the boundary wall on one side. It is at the end of an extended steel appendage protruding outwards from the guard room. The author press the button labelled “security” on the intercom and wait. In India, the difficulties of defining the empirical size and objective boundaries of the middle class are complicated due to the interaction of the middle class with other axes of inequality, like caste, gender, region, religion and language. Therefore, the economic basis of studying class through the variables of income and assets alone does not provide an authentic and justifiable understanding of the changing character of the middle class either. Scholars studying the middle class in India have also employed the framework that has popularly come to be termed as the cultural turn to class analysis.
