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Poverty and the quest for life : spiritual and material striving in rural India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singh, Bhrigupati
Format: Printed Book
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • First impressions, and further
  • The headless horseman of central India : sovereignty at varying thresholds of life
  • Mitra-Varuna : state power and powerlessness
  • The coarse and the fine : contours of a slow-moving crisis
  • Contracts, bonds, and bonded labor
  • Erotics and agonistics : intensities deeper than deep play
  • Divine migrations : neighborliness between humans, animals, and gods
  • The waxing and waning life of Kalli
  • Bansi mahatmaya (the greatness of Bansi), an erotic ascetic
  • Departure, and marriages and deaths
  • The quality of life : a daemonic view.