The village in india
edited by Vandana Madan
- New Delhi Oxford 2004
- 477 p.
Table of contents:
1. The 'village community' from Munro to Maine / Louis Dumont -- 2. The Indian village : myth and reality / M. N. Srinivas -- 3. The pasts of an Indian village / B. S. Cohn -- 4. Two villages in Orissa / F. G. Bailey -- 5. Chanukhera : cultural change in Eastern Uttar Pradesh / Yogendra Singh -- 6. A Jajmani system of North India : its structure, magnitude, and meaning / Harold A. Gould -- 7. Caste, gender, and locality in rural Rajasthan / Helen Lambert -- 8. A Tamil village : changing socio-economic structure in Madras state / Joan P. Mencher -- 9. Every blade of green : landless women labourers, production, and reproduction / Karin Kapadia -- 10. Palanpur, 1957-93 : occupational change, land ownership, and social inequality / Jean Dreze -- 11. The distribution of power / Andre Beteille -- 12. The statutory Panchayat / Anand Chakravarti -- 13. Community and the politics of honour / Amita Baviskar -- 14. Rituals of the village / C. J. Fuller -- 15. The social construction of cultural identities in rural Kashmir / T. N. Madan -- 16. Multiple settings / Ann Gold -- 17. A rural development project in action / S. C. Dube -- 18. 'The domination of Indira' / Susan Wadley -- 19. Farming in the forest : the Dangs 1830-1992 / David Hardiman -- 20. Widowhood and well-being in rural North India / Martha Alter Chen and J. Dreze.