The Village in India
The village has epitomized Indian civilization and been the subject of study and contemplation. The present volume attempts to address a wide number of interests - economic, political, cultural, social. gender - and presents a profile of processes and cahnge in Indian villages based on publications over the last fifty years. The essays clearly demonstrate that every Indian village although similar in many ways, is also characterised by regional variations.
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The village has epitomized Indian civilization and been the subject of study and contemplation. The present volume attempts to address a wide number of interests - economic, political, cultural, social. gender - and presents a profile of processes and cahnge in Indian villages based on publications over the last fifty years. The essays clearly demonstrate that every Indian village although similar in many ways, is also characterised by regional variations.
Introduction1IThemes and Perspectives271The 'Village Community' from Munro to Maine312The Indian Village: Myth and Reality513The Pasts of an Indian Village714Two Villages in Orissa80IICaste, Kinship, Locality, and Gender1015Chanukhera: Cultural Change in Eastern Uttar Pradesh1056A Jajmani System of North India: Its Structure, Magnitude, and Meaning1267Caste, Gender, and Locality in Rural Rajasthan144IIIEconomy and Survival1618A Tamil Village: Changing Socioeconomic Structure in Madras State1659Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Labourers, Production, and Reproduction18210Palanpur, 1957-93: Occupational Change, Land Ownership, and Social Inequality203IVPowder and Politics22311The Distribution of Power22712The Statutory Panchayat23813Community and the Politics of Honour252VReligion, Culture, and Ideology26714Rituals of the Village27115The Social Construction of Cultural Identities in Rural Kashmir29816Multiple Settings326VIDevelopment and Change34517A Rural Development Project in Action35118'The Domination of Indira'37319Farming in the Forest: The Dangs 1830-199239120Widowhood and Well-Being in Rural North India417References445Index467
