The upside-down tree : India's changing culture / Richard Connerney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connerney, Richard D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Description and travel.

India.

India--Social life and customs.

Connerney, Richard D--Travel--India.

Connerney, Richard D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Pub., c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When he called India a ?functioning anarchy,? economist Kenneth Galbraith may have been thinking about Uttar Pradesh (UP), in northern India. Some Indians laughingly refer to Uttar Pradesh as a ?loser state.? Known as a home of deep poverty, incurable corruption and sticky social problems, UP is not the India that now appears regularly in The New York Times and Newsweek. This is the ""other"" India; the one that modernity has largely left behind, and this book is the result of Rick Connerney's repeated residencies over the last 18 years in that state. Most of India's 1.13 billion people live f

Contents:

Introduction; The Upside Down Tree: The Bi-directionality of Cultural Change in India; Tameez aur Tahazeeb: Lucknow, Home of Manners and Civilization; The International Museum of the Latrine: Sewage and Scavengers; In Search of Flesh-Eating Turtles: Death Rituals and Water Pollution; Eating Baby Sharks: The Failing Fisheries of Goa; Kipling's Vermont: Surviving the Monsoons; The Tower of Babu: Hindi, Hinglish, English; Uda Devi Zindabad? The Assault on History as Illustrated by the History of an Assault; The Mourning of Chains: Muharram (and a Sunni-Shiite Riot) in Lucknow

A Law unto Themselves: Muslim Personal Law and the Imrana Rape CaseTameezaur Tahazeeb vs. Reader's Digest; Swimming in the Existential Baptismal Font: Tourists and Tourism in India; Portrait of a Dancer: Traditional Performing Arts in Lucknow; Rinky's Dream: Contemporary Art in India; Family Matters; Caste and Communal Politics: Or Lonesome No More!; Tempest in a Teapot: The Darjeeling Tea Trade; The Song Remains the Same: Bombay, Business and the Protestant Work Ethic; Sona's Blue Refrigerator; Dramas of Progress: Lucknow in Indian Cinema

The Upside-Down Tree Turns Upside Down: On Going HomeSelected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87586-650-6

OCLC:

457043229