In one of Chennai’s ubiquitous academic-coaching classes, a hundred 12th graders are crammed into a purple room, about 30 feet long and 25 feet wide. The energy-sapping temperature is well over 100 ...

The heterogenous and diverse middle class in India, classified by different occupations, education and income levels, has significantly expanded since the 2000s. It now represents a sizeable consumer ...

Euromonitor statistics (top graph) count more middle class households in China than India while the Boston Consulting Group (bottom graph) counts more middle class households in India than in China.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The image of India's popular middle class established under colonial rule in the mid-1800s is still rippling through current Indian society, says a Purdue University Indian ...

NEW DELHI, May 3 (Reuters) - India's middle class will reach 583 million from the current 50 million by 2025 if high economic growth holds and the government undertakes reforms, a report by management ...

This is my twenty-fifth year in journalism, and my twenty-fifth Union Budget. Once upon a time, it was a three-day carnival.