| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Sanjay Joshi. Fractured Modernity: Making of a Middle Class in Colonial North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 209. $29.95.

Sanjay Joshi's careful study of the emerging middle class in an important city of north India between 1880 and 1930 is a convincing and sophisticated intervention in current debates about the nature of modernity in India and, most centrally, the foundations of the Indian state. At first blush, Joshi may be assumed to be reviewing familiar ground about the central role of education, not industrialization, in shaping a colonized, bilingual middle class that could only be flawed when compared to its European counterparts. Joshi in fact challenges this interpretation, above all by building on recent work in European history that rethinks the ideal-typical middle class. Using a wide range of government documents, English and Hindi newspapers and publications, the records of key voluntary associations, and private papers, Joshi argues, in short, that what may seem Indian anomalies are in fact continuities with European patterns. Attention to the India case, moreover, enlarges understanding of both. . . .

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