Introduction
1. Imagination of Village: A Tri-logue with Gandhi, Tagore and Ambedkar
Dev Nath Pathak
2. What If, the ‘Rural’ is the Future; and Not the Past?
Bhavya Chitranshi and Anup Dhar
3. Rural Frames: Bollywood Imagination of Village India
Priyasha Kaul
4. Village Studies and Possibilities of ‘Multispecies’ Ethnography
Ishita Dey
5. Violence on Dalits in Village India: Metaphors, Marginalities and the ‘Problem of Exit’
Bidhan Chandra Dash
6. Traditional Modernity: Class, Caste and Gender in Occupational Patterns in Rural Uttar Pradesh
Ishita Mehrotra
7. Beyond Sadak, Bijli and Pani: Discourses of Infrastructural Power in Today’s Rural India
Anjana John
8. Sammamma’s Seeds: The Price She Pays
Shalini Bhutani
9. From Polyvalent Knowledge to Monovalent Knowledge: A Social Constructivist Account of
Agricultural Knowledge Transition in a Village in Telangana
Chandri Raghava Reddy and Prasanth Kumar Munnangi
10. From Grain to Gain: Mapping the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Agribusiness in a Village of Uttarakhand
Santosh K. Singh
11. Infrastructural Development in Rural Punjab: Understanding Social Impacts of Planned Interventions on the Stakeholders
Sukhwant Sidhu
Contributors
Biography
Santosh K. Singh, PhD (JNU) is currently a faculty in the Sociology programme and Dean, School of Liberal Studies at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi, India.
