Popular Artists and Their Audiences

It will be helpful for the purposes of this article to think of South Asian societies in terms of three broad social categories: (1) the elite, a wealthy group composed of large landowning or business families who acquired the trappings of British colonial culture as status symbols in the early twentieth century; (2) the largely urban middle classes, who have sought English-language education and new (predominantly British-style) job skills as a means of upward social and financial mobility;...