The middle class: A clear opportunity

It’s still an amorphous haze near the horizon, but the political mobilisation of the urban Indian middle class can potentially change the way India is governed — and transform the patron-client relationship that has, to a great extent, marked India’s relationship with its rulers. I accept that this class is still selective about the issues it chooses to espouse. But as the 2006 protests in Delhi and elsewhere against the initial clean chit to Jessica Lall’s murderer, then the support for Anna Hazare’s 2011 crusade against corruption and, last month, the protests against the Delhi gang rape showed, the urban Indian is increasingly willing to come out on the streets to press for his demands.

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