Describe the main features of Indian new middle class. How is it different from the old middle class ? (Answer in 150 words)

- Describe the main features of Indian new middle class. How is it different from the old middle class ? (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
India's new middle class is defined by what it consumes, not by the office it holds.
Body
1. Features of the new middle class: It grew out of the liberalisation of 1991, earning in information technology, finance, media and private services. Leela Fernandes describes a class constituted through consumption and lifestyle, its politics practised through media and civic campaigns rather than parties; Satish Deshpande notes how it presents its own interests as the nation's. Upper castes remain heavily over-represented.
2. Where it differs from the old: The old middle class, described by B. B. Misra, was created by colonial education for administration: clerks, teachers, lawyers and officials, salaried by the state, thin and upper-caste. The axes are the source of income, state salary against market earnings; the basis of status, office against consumption; and cultural orientation, nationalist frugality against a global consumer standard.
Conclusion
The shift is from a class that served the state to one that expects the market to serve it.