Bastian Steuwer

Bastian Steuwer is an assistant professor of politics at Ashoka University. Views are personal.

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The first myth is in invoking the “middle class” as synonymous with income taxpayers, investment gains, and so on. Promoting policies for the middle class, the ordinary Indian, or the common man naturally enjoy broad support.

Two myths about the Indian middle class

They sustain a politics which does not disturb the position of the privileged few and deflects the focus from larger issues of economic justice.

Bastian Steuwer

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