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For Indians expanding urban middle class, perhaps no issue is more important than addressing corruption in public life that most perceive to be pervasive and debilitating. It could ever be said that for this post liberalization generation, corruption and the fight against corruption has become the predominant theme of the second decade of the 21 Century. The spread of this Concept What Philip Abrams(1988 56-69) Termed the "State idea" has resulted from a decline in the importance and prestige for the middle class of a public sector that often requires bribes to attain employment and key postings and from which corruption is a major source of income. In constant people with private sector jobs receive much less personal benefit from corrupt practices, and unlike landed elites, no longer need influence over local state institutions in order to protect their interests. There was a lot less noise about Corruption where majority of the politicians and bureaucrats who benefited where from upper caste, urban middle class This is perhaps why politicians are after seen as the source of Corruption to the middle class popular imagination