India’s Forgotten Backbone: Why the Middle Class, Especially Farmers, Deserves Greater Policy Attention
India is home to more than 1.4 billion people. Economically, the population can broadly be viewed as three groups—the poor, the middle class, and the rich. Although there is no official government definition of the “middle class,” various studies estimate that around 25-35% of Indians belong to the middle-income group, nearly 60-70% fall into low-income…