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The village in India / edited by Vandana Madan - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2002. - x, 477 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology .

Introduction 1
I. THEMES AND PERSPECTIVES 27;
1. Louis DUMONT The 'Village Community' from Munro to Maine 31;
2. M.N. SRINIVAS The Indian Village: Myth and Reality 51;
3. B.S. COHN The Pasts of an Indian Village 71;
4. F.G. BAILEY, Two Villages in Orissa 80;
II-CASTE, KINSHIP, LOCALITY, AND GENDER 101;
5. YOGENDRA SINGH Chanukhera: Cultural Change in Eastern Uttar Pradesh 105;
6. HAROLD A. GOULD A Jajmani System of North India: Its Structure, Magnitude, and Meaning 126;
7. HELEN LAMBERT, Caste, Gender, and Locality in Rural Rajasthan 144;
III-ECONOMY AND SURVIVAL 161;
8. JOAN P. MENCHER, A Tamil Village: Changing Socio-economic Structure in Madras State 165;
9. KARIN KAPADIA Every Blade of Green: Landless Women Labourers, Production, and Reproduction 182;
10. JEAN DRÈZE, Palanpur, 1957-93: Occupational Change, Land Ownership, and Social Inequality 203
IV-POWER AND POLITICS 223;
11. ANDRE BETEILLE The Distribution of Power 227;
12. ANAND CHAKRAVARTI The Statutory Panchayat 238;
13. AMITA BAVISKAR Community and the Politics of Honour 252;
V. RELIGION, CULTURE, AND IDEOLOGY 267;
14. C.J. FULLER, Rituals of the Village 271;
15. T.N. MADAN The Social Construction of Cultural Identities in Rural Kashmir 298;
16. ANN GOLD Multiple Settings 326;
VI-DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE 345;
17. S.C. DUBE, A Rural Development Project in Action 351;
18. SUSAN WADLEY, 'The Domination of Indira,' 373;
19. DAVID HARDIMAN Farming in the Forest: The Dangs 1830-1992 391;
20. MARTHA ALTER CHEN Widowhood and Well-Being in -- AND J. DREZE Rural North India 417.

ISBN: 0195658205

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LCCN: 2002512949

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA2-Z6365

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Villages--India.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Rural conditions.

Dewey Class. No.: 307.720954 MAD