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The New Revolutionaries
The Rise of the Middle Classes

Who the new consumers are, how they spend their money, and what companies should do to captivate nearly one billion people

GOVIND SINGH SHEKHAWAT does not look like a revolutionary. A hardworking forty-something who holds down two jobs in the sleepy Indian desert state of Rajasthan, he has the broad smile of a man who is happy with life. Ma Guojun does not look like a revolutionary, either. Younger than Govind by about ten years, he is an engineer and teaches at a university in Qinghai province in western China. Yet they unquestionably are part of a revolutionary movement: the rise of the Chinese and Indian middle class.

Throughout history, China and India have been sharply polarized ...

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