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Preface | ||
1 | "Tell Them to Listen with Their Ears Open" | 1 |
Increasing Disorder | 3 | |
Making Their Own Destiny | 5 | |
Karimpur and Its Environs, 1925-1984 | 8 | |
Four Lives | 17 | |
Raghunath, a Cultivator | 17 | |
Santoshi, the Midwife | 23 | |
Saroj, a Brahman Widow | 25 | |
Mohan, an Elderly Brahman | 29 | |
2 | "There Should Be Control" | 36 |
Knowledge, Control, and Gender | 37 | |
"One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep" | 59 | |
Shankar, the Village Headman, and Sufhir, a Poor Brahman | 68 | |
3 | "Power Comes through Money" | 77 |
Brahman by Birth | 77 | |
Brahmans as Patrons | 81 | |
Power in Karimpur | 92 | |
Gaining and Maintaining Honor | 96 | |
Brahman Lifestyles | 102 | |
Sheila, the Washerwoman | 106 | |
4 | "Poverty Is Written in My Destiny" | 117 |
Living One's Destiny | 118 | |
Sorrow | 123 | |
Being Poor | 124 | |
Escaping Poverty | 148 | |
Jiji and Kamla, Two Widows | 154 | |
5 | "The Domination of Indira" | 163 |
The Increasing Intrusion of the State into Agriculture | 165 | |
Rural Development Schemes | 175 | |
Health Care and the State | 192 | |
Attitudes toward Education | 195 | |
The Landlord's Loss of Dominance | 199 | |
Sunita, the Shepherd's Wife, and Saroj Revisited | 201 | |
6 | "Now Love Is Totally Lost" | 210 |
"Those People Have Become Big Men Now" | 211 | |
"These People Won't Let Us Rise Up" | 226 | |
"There Is No Discipline" | 234 | |
"Now There Is a Headman in Every House" | 242 | |
The Response to Disorder | 245 | |
Epilogue | 249 | |
Glossary | 253 | |
Notes | 259 | |
Bibliography | 277 | |
Index | 291 |
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Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984, Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur—the village behind mud walls made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser—as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s.
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Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984, Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur—the village behind mud walls made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser—as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s.
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