Browsing Tag: Middle Class

I ENCOUNTERED something on this trip to India that I had never met before: a whole new political community — India’s “virtual middle class.”

Ever heard of Aurangabad, a dusty trading town in the heart of India? Neither, it seems, had Daimler (DAI), the No. 2 maker of luxury cars. So when a Mercedes-Benz dealership in Pune, got a call from Aurangabad's chamber of commerce to place an order for 115 sedans...