انگلیسی 1278

The Rise of Middle Classes In Manipur It is considered that there is a gap in the understanding of therole of Middle Classes in Manipur. In the month of September, 2011a one day symposium was organized under the aegis of Centre forSocial Studies (proposed) at Imphal on the subject. We invited somescholars of Social Sciences to present their papers on the subject.We also requested Professor Ghanshyam Shah, National Fellow in theIndian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla. He was kind enough tosend a brief note which was the talking point of the symposium. Theparticipants of the symposium are named among the contributors towhom I am extremely grateful. The eight papers published in thesmall book have done justice to the subject. Professor KshetriBimola presided over the symposium and contributed a paper. Contents: Preface. 1. Middle class/Ghanshyam Shah. 2. The rise of middle classes in modern Manipur/GangmumeiKamei. 3. Emergence of the tribal middle classes in Manipur: thecolonial and post colonial period/Lal Dena. 4. The emergence of the middle classes in the politics ofManipur/Joykumar Singh. 5. The changing nature and role of middle class inManipur/Kshetri Bimola. 6. Middle class politics in post colonial Manipur 1950-1972/N.Lokendra Singh. 7. Middle class in Manipur/M.C. Arunkumar. 8. The mind of the middle class and modern Manipur literature inpost colonial period/Nongthombam Jiten. Index.