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Delhi India
An elitist approach
Dec 07, 2015 12:49 PM 5376 Views

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Now, this book by learned Pavan K Varma did not impress me a lot.


Partly, because of his claim to represent middle class.


Alas, he hardly understands it and has never experienced dilemma of being educated but financially weak!


How can a member of elite Indian foreign service and son of an Indian civil servant of British India make such a ludicrous claim.


Thus, he hardly understands pangs of middle class.


He squarely blames indifference of middle class to collapse of Indian democracy.


Then, Varma ji is not a sociologist.


Unlike Prof. Deepankar Gupta, a known sociologist, he has not under taken field studies .


One agrees that his other books - The Havelis of Old Delhi, Being Indian -are quite good.


But, one won't recommend it 1


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