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| List of Tables | ||
| List of Maps and Figures | ||
| Note on Transliteration | ||
| 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 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
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Mickey Baker
reviewed Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 on March 02, 2009
Struggling with destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984
A thought-provoking and informative book that contains a compilation of essays about the economic, political and social standing of India in the nineties. Although it's been a while since those days have passed, the book nevertheless is quite an interesting read. There's a lot to learn, plenty of room to grow for India in every aspect and the book pinpoints all the reasons India has always remained a third-world country and how it can cure all the parasitic infections that have festered the nation since it's independence. Definitely worth the read, if you have missed out reading the newspapers in your childhood, otherwise also. In fact, this book should be made a part of our history textbooks.
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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.X
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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. |
