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)
Edited by:
Santosh K. Singh
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Weight: 648g
ISBN: 9781032524627
ISBN 10: 1032524626
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 21 July 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1. Imagination of Village: A Tri-logue with Gandhi, Tagore and Ambedkar Dev Nath Pathak 2. What If, the ‘Rural’ is the Future; and Not the Past? Bhavya Chitranshi and Anup Dhar 3. Rural Frames: Bollywood Imagination of Village India Priyasha Kaul 4. Village Studies and Possibilities of ‘Multispecies’ Ethnography Ishita Dey 5. Violence on Dalits in Village India: Metaphors, Marginalities and the ‘Problem of Exit’ Bidhan Chandra Dash 6. Traditional Modernity: Class, Caste and Gender in Occupational Patterns in Rural Uttar Pradesh Ishita Mehrotra 7. Beyond Sadak, Bijli and Pani: Discourses of Infrastructural Power in Today’s Rural India Anjana John 8. Sammamma’s Seeds: The Price She Pays Shalini Bhutani 9. From Polyvalent Knowledge to Monovalent Knowledge: A Social Constructivist Account of Agricultural Knowledge Transition in a Village in Telangana Chandri Raghava Reddy and Prasanth Kumar Munnangi 10. From Grain to Gain: Mapping the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Agribusiness in a Village of Uttarakhand Santosh K. Singh 11. Infrastructural Development in Rural Punjab: Understanding Social Impacts of Planned Interventions on the Stakeholders Sukhwant Sidhu Contributors
Santosh K. Singh, PhD (JNU) is currently a faculty in the Sociology programme and Dean, School of Liberal Studies at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi, India.
