The middle class is the basis of a strong and
functional democracy. Indian economic policy has, in the past, focused
almost entirely on the poor, but the end of poverty lies in the
production of the middle class, one that would include many of those who
are currently among the poor. This article offers a strategy that takes
us away from an economy split between the poor and the rich, and from a
charitable notion of economic redistribution to the possibility of
rights-based claims for economic justice.
