List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Surinder S. Jodhka
Ethnographies of the Rural: Early Village Studies.
The Social Structure of a Mysore Village
M.N. Srinivas
Village Structure in North Kerala
E. J. Miller
A Himalayan Village
W.H. Newell
A Bengal Village
Shrimati Jyotirmoyee Sarma
Social Structure in the Punjab
M.W. Smith
A Deccan Village
S.C. Dube
Change in a Malwa (MP) Village
Adrian C. Mayer
Sripuram: A Village in Tanjore District
Andre Beteille
A Changing Village of Rajasthan
V. Nath
Rural Development: Perspectives, Policies and Programmes
Structural Change: An Approach to Poverty in Asian Rural Development
Ralph H. Retzlaff
Community Development Programme: Its Political Impact
Baldev Raj Nayar
Social Consequences of Rural Electrification
T.N. Valunjkar
Green Revolution and Social Inequalities in Rural India
D. N. Dhanagare
‘Garibi Hatao’: Can IRDP Do It?
Nilakantha Rath
Politics and Implementation of Integrated Rural Development Programme
Kuldeep Mathur
Operation Flood and Rural India: Vested and Divested Interests
Shanti George
Power, Politics and Village-Level Organisations: Oilseeds Growers’ Co-operatives in MP
Sankar Datta
One Kind of Democracy: Implementing MGNREGS
Siwan Anderson, Patrick Francois, Ashok Kotwal and Ashwini Kulkarni
Falling into Poverty in Villages of Andhra Pradesh: Why Poverty Avoidance Policies are Needed
Anirudh Krishna, Mahesh Kapila, Sharad Pathak, Mahendra Porwal, Kiranpal Singh and Virpal Singh
Rural Non-Farm Employment in India: Access, Incomes and Poverty Impact
Peter Lanjouw and Abusaleh Shariff
Changing Rural Landscapes: Social, Economic and Political Life
The Myth of Self-Sufficiency of the Indian Village
M.N. Srinivas and A.M. Shah
Chamar Family in a North Indian Village: A Structural Contingent
Bernard S. Cohn
Urbanisation in a Delhi Village: Some Social Aspects
M.S.A Rao
Rurality, Modernity and Education
Krishna Kumar
Dominant Castes or Rich Peasants?
John MacDougall
India’s Rural Politicians: Two Faces of Power
Satish K. Arora
Transitory Residence and Invisible Work: Case Study of a Rajasthan Village
Rajni Palriwala
Who Borrows? Who Lends?: Changing Structure of Informal Credit in Rural Haryana
Surinder S. Jodhka
Maps of Experience: Narratives of Migration in an Indian Village
Radhika Chopra
Marriage Norms, Choice and Aspiration of Rural Women
U. Kalpagam
Masculine Spaces: Rural Male Culture in North India
Prem Chowdhry
Wife-Beating in Rural India: A Husband’s Right, Evidence from Survey Data
Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
Politics at the Margin: A Tale of Two Villages
Dayabati Roy
The Elderly in Rural Orissa: Alone in Distress
Pradeep Kumar Panda
Emergent Ruralities: Revisiting Village Life and Agrarian Change in Haryana
Surinder S. Jodhka
Notes on the Authors