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Poverty and the quest for life : spiritual and material striving in rural India / Bhrigupati Singh.
LIBRA DS485.R25 S56 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singh, Bhrigupati, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural poor--India--Rajasthan.
- Rural poor.
- Ethnology.
- Rajasthan (India)--Social conditions.
- Rajasthan (India).
- Rajasthan (India)--Social life and customs.
- Ethnology--India--Rajasthan.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- India--Rajasthan.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 335 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- First impressions, and further
- The headless horseman of central India : sovereignty at varying thresholds of life
- Mitra Varuna : state power and powerlessness
- Erotics and agonistics : intensities deeper than deep play
- Divine migrations and human relations
- The waxing and waning life of Kalli, a warrior-activist
- Bansi mahatmaya (the greatness of Bansi), an erotic ascetic
- Departure, and marriages and deaths
- The quality of life : a daemonic view.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226194400
- 022619440X
- 9780226194547
- 022619454X
- OCLC:
- 879034074
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