Books

Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility and the New Middle Class

Author: BASS Michiel
Publication Date: Aug / 2020
Publisher: Context

This book explores how fitness trainers in the gyms of urban India use their ‘bodily capital’ for ‘upward mobility’. It is based on 10 years of research that involved building relationships, spending time with his research participants in their homes and workplaces, and trying to make sense of their stories in the broader socio-political context of a transforming India.