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Badalte Gaon, Badalta Dehat - Nayi Samajikta ka Uday (Paperback)
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Badalte Gaon, Badalta Dehat - Nayi Samajikta ka Uday (Paperback)
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Everyday life in contemporary rural India is characterized by an
increased sense of mobility, inequality, and uncertainty. Ordinary
villagers often find themselves caught between the promises and
failures of democracy and development. This ethnographic study of
the village of Khanpur (in Uttar Pradesh, north India) is an
attempt to grasp everyday life in rural India. Drawing on
descriptions of village life, interspersed with theoretical
analyses, the author examines how ordinary people construct their
own sense of their lives and their futures in everyday activities:
working on farms, attending college, searching for non-farm
employment, celebrating religious rituals, and dealing with local
elections and democracy. The villagers confront growing economic
and moral uncertainty; they creatively harmonize public discourse
and local practice; and sometimes they resolve incoherence and
unease through the use of irony. In so doing, they perform everyday
village and caste ethics and re-create transient political,
economic, and moral communities at a time of massive social
dislocation. Satendra Kumar in this lucid book shows, in no
uncertain terms, that villages in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere have
been and continue to be vibrant grounds for the production of
culture, sociality, hope, politics, and persons. He also addresses
anthropology's forfeiture of the village as a subject of study in
an era of globalization.
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