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Narrow Fairways - Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India (Hardcover)
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Narrow Fairways - Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India (Hardcover)
Series: Global and Comparative Ethnography
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India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its
1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day.
Just as telling, the country's informal working population numbers
nearly 500 million, or approximately 80 percent of the entire labor
force. Despite these figures and the related structural
disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the Indian elite
hold fast to the idea that the poor need only work harder and show
some discipline and they, too, can become rich. The results of this
ambitious ten-year ethnography at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore
shatter such self-serving illusions. In Narrow Fairways, Patrick
Inglis combines participant observation, interviews, and archival
research to show how social mobility among the poor lower-caste
golf caddies who carry the golf sets of wealthy upper-caste members
at these clubs is ultimately constrained and narrowed. The book
highlights how elites secure and extend class and caste privileges,
while also delivering a necessary rebuke to India's present
development strategy, which pays far too little attention to
promoting quality health care, education, and other basic social
services that would deliver real opportunities to the poor.
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