In the time of agrarian crisis and movement, Remembering India’s Villages centralises the rural India―examining its stubborn past and dynamic present.
Departing from the myth of little republics, it sees villages in cinema, development discourses, and debates among the founders of modern India like Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore and Ambedkar. Empirical research, multidisciplinary perspective, and cross-cultural insights are useful aids in this book toward understanding the reality of the rural that comprises structural anomalies and social possibilities. The book remembers India’s villages under the trope of reconstitution rather than disappearance. The book adds to the renewed interest in village studies, rural sociology, development studies, and intellectual history.
This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Author(s): Santosh K. Sing
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 266
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Imagination of Village: A Tri-logue with Gandhi, Tagore and Ambedkar
Chapter 2: What If, the ‘Rural’ is the Future; and Not the Past?
Chapter 3: Rural Frames: Bollywood Imagination of Village India
Chapter 4: Village Studies and Possibilities of ‘Multispecies’ Ethnography
Chapter 5: Violence on Dalits in Village India: Metaphors, Marginalities and the ‘Problem of Exit’
Chapter 6: Traditional Modernity: Class, Caste and Gender in Occupational Patterns in Rural Uttar Pradesh
Chapter 7: Beyond Sadak, Bijli and Pani: Discourses of Infrastructural Power in Today’s Rural India
Chapter 8: Sammamma’s Seeds: The Price She Pays
Chapter 9: From Polyvalent Knowledge to Monovalent Knowledge: A Social Constructivist Account of Agricultural Knowledge Transition in a Village in Telangana
Chapter 10: From Grain to Gain: Mapping the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Agribusiness in a Village of Uttarakhand
Chapter 11: Infrastructural Development in Rural Punjab: Understanding Social Impacts of Planned Interventions on the Stakeholders
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