Cultivating Democracy : Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India / Mukulika Banerjee.

By:

Banerjee, Mukulika [author.]

Series: Modern South Asia seriesPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: 1 EditionDescription: pages cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780197601860
9780197601877

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

302.140954 BAN 23

LOC classification:

HN683.5 .B2746 2021

Contents:

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

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	Anthropology Section	302.140954 BAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		38847

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

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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