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6 surprising facts about India’s exploding middle class

Vehicles move along New Delhi's Connaught Place during evening hours, October 28, 2014. India has the world's deadliest roads, the result of a flood of untrained drivers, inadequate law enforcement, badly maintained highways and cars that fail modern crash tests. Alarmed by the increasing fatalities, the new government has begun a five-year project to cut road deaths by a fifth every year, part of the most ambitious overhaul of highway laws since independence in 1947.?Picture taken October 28, 2014. To match Feature INDIA-DRIVING/ Picture is taken using slow shutter speed. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee (INDIA - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY CITYSCAPE) - RTR4COPC

Middle class now includes carpenters, street vendors, decorators and drivers, amongst others Image: REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee

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Occupational structure of India's lower middle class
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Number of households in India with disposible income over US$10,000: 1990-2015
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