Poverty and the quest for life :
305.56909544BHR
Bhrigupati Singh
Poverty and the quest for life : spiritual and material striving in rural India / by Bhrigupati Singh.- New Delhi:Oxford University Press,2015.
xiii,335p. :ill.,map;23cm(Hb)
content: First impressions, and further -- The headless horseman of central India : sovereignty at varying thresholds of life -- Mitra-Varuna : state power and powerlessness -- The coarse and the fine : contours of a slow-moving crisis -- Contracts, bonds, and bonded labor -- Erotics and agonistics : intensities deeper than deep play -- Divine migrations : neighborliness between humans, animals, and gods -- The waxing and waning life of Kalli -- Bansi mahatmaya (the greatness of Bansi), an erotic ascetic -- Departure, and marriages and deaths -- The quality of life : a daemonic view.
Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index.
ISBN:9780199459667 Rs. 795.00
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