Metropolitan and Indian bourgeois elites form a class alliance canonizing English cosmopolitan literature.

Evidence

These shifts in the post-colonial period have further augmented the tendencyamong the metropolitan intellectuals especially, but also in large sectors of the bourgeois intelligentsia inside India - to view the products of the English-writing intelligentsia of the cosmopolitan cities as the central documents of India’s national literature. This transcontinental partnership in perception, in essence a class alliance, is by now quite firmly established. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 299

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Indian print literatures were assembled by culturally beleaguered petty-bourgeois str — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1190; British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5399; Popular culture belongs to an alliance of oppressed classes (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. #corroborates (0.88) — , The Rod and the Child, 5399
• English literature has shaped the very categories of modern Indian thought #expands (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 541
• The English bourgeoisie extracted moral discipline from working-class cultural goods to forge imperial unity. #corroborates (0.75)
• The English ruling class extracted working-class cultural forms like athleticism to cement imperial unity. #corroborates (0.75)
• Popular culture belongs to an alliance of oppressed classes #expands (0.72)
• Realism took root in Indian literature because it matched bourgeois class upheaval #complicates (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1183
• Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes #expands (0.72)