Muscular India: In a new book, Michiel Baas examines masculinity, mobility and the new middle class
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Muscular India: In a new book, Michiel Baas examines masculinity, mobility and the new middle class

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“What does it take to become middle class? As a new entrant, how does one lose the skin of newness, one’s entry being suspect and up for inspection and judgement?” asks Michiel Baas, author of the fascinating new book Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class. Published by Context, an imprint of Westland Publications, Baas’ book explores how fitness trainers in the gyms of urban India use their ‘bodily capital’ for ‘upward mobility’. My book is partly set in Bengaluru, and explores how new middle-class men make sense of the rapid urban changes around them. Caste is omnipresent in people’s lives in India but the way it operates is often less clear-cut than it would seem.

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