The new indian middle class book read 3 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers for the first time in our history the indian middle cla. Recently however sociologists have begun to recognize the influential role that the middle classes play in india particularly in creating and strengthening dominant discourses of gender nationhood and modernity deshpande 2003 mankekar 1999 fernandes 2006 thapan 2004 in addition the middle classes emergence as a class of consumers is becoming increasingly evident as is the emergence of discourses around the idea of the new indian middle class woman. Rise of the indian middle class know the reason impact and what are the problems faced by the middle class families in india the indian middle class is rising rapidly and is expected to be the . Unlike in many other countries in the world the middle class in india is a wide ranging grouping a typical member of the indian middle class spends between 2 and 10 per day within the 2 to 10 range there are two groups a lower and an upper middle class. He was alluding to the rise of indias new middle class full of energy and drive and making things happen in an uninhibited pragmatic and amoral fashion