Description
About the Author
Patrick Inglis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. He teaches and writes on matters of global development, labor, and inequality.
Reviews
Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India gives readers important insight into the nature of social mobility in India today. Elaborate notes are scholarly and helpful in understanding the context and the author's arguments. The language is lucid and the book is gripping. It will be of interest to students and scholars of social sciences, and general readers who are interested in understanding social mobility in contemporary India. * Ganeshdatta Poddar, Pacific Affair *
As a well -- crafted text, this book draws us into the lives of the caddies and their interactions with the elite both on and off the golf course. * Divya Vaid, American Journal of Sociology *
Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India is an invaluable treatise on the dynamics of social mobility among the lower middle classes in a globalizing India. * Ganeshdtta Poddar, Pacific Affairs Volume 97 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190664770
Author Patrick Inglis
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 544g
Dimensions(mm) 160mm * 236mm * 23mm