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Rural India and Peasantry in Hindi Stories

Narratives After Premchand

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a rich storehouse of short stories in Hindi, after Premchand, the book evokes the entire spectrum of crises that the rural world has experienced since the early decades of independent India through the period of liberalization till the recent decades. The transcribed excerpts poignantly carry the spirit of rural India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780192871572
• ISBN-10: 0192871579
• Artikelnr.: 66127974

Autorenporträt

Professor and former Head, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Worked in MGKV university, as a Faculty in GWU Washington DC, 2008-2009, Served as Chair India Studies in the Dept of Theatre and Performance, Monash University Melbourne2017

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Rural India and Peasantry in Stories
* 1: Village India: Difficult Stories
* 2: Land Grab: The Dispossessed in the Spectacles of Jugaad
* 3: Small Farmers of Cane and Paddy: Post-Harvest Delays and
Non-Payment
* 4: Women Peasants in Triple Jeopardy: Conmen as Philanthropists
* 5: Why Do Rural Poor Continue to Remain Poor and Uneducated?
* 6: Rural Migration: Dismantling Rural Resources
* 7: When Hunger Hits the Rural Poor, Aged, and Disabled: The Meal of
Mice and Dead Cow
* 8: Farmers in Death Row: Farming- Risky, Sisyphean; Usury- Back
Breaking
* 9: Despoiled Environment: In the Politics of Integrated Development,
Money Grows on Trees