TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banerjee,Mukulika
TI  - Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India 
T2  - Modern South Asia series
SN  - 9780197601860
AV  - HN683.5 .B2746 2021
U1  - 302.140954 BAN 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social Participation
KW  - India
KW  - Case Studies
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Social Life and Customs
N1  - Table of contents
Preface;
I. The Event and Democracy;
II. Context: The village in a democracy;
III. Scandal: Cultivating competition;
IV. Harvest: Cultivating solidarity;
V. Qurbani: Cultivating faith;
VI. Election: Cultivating citizenship;
VII. Cultivating democracy;
Acknowledgements
N2  - "This book is an anthropological study of the relationship of formal political democracy and the cultivation of active citizenship in one particular rural setting in India, studied from 1998 to 2013. It draws on deep ethnographic engagement with the people and social life in two villages both during elections and in the time in between them, to show how these two temporalities connect. The analysis shows how an agrarian village society produces the social imaginaries required for democratic and republican values. The ethnographic microscope on a single paddy growing setting allows us to examine how the various social institutions of kinship, economy and religion are critical sites for the continual civic cultivation of cooperation, vigilance, redistribution, inviolate commitment and hope - values that are essential for democracy"--
ER  -