Poverty and the quest for life. (Record no. 66635)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780199459667 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME | |
| Distributor Name | International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address | Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi |
| Bill Number | 122164 |
| Bill Date | 10/11/2025 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME | |
| Distributor Name | International Book Distributors |
| Distributor address | Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi |
| Bill Number | 122163 |
| Bill Date | 10/11/2025 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.56 SIN |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Singh, Bhrigupati. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Poverty and the quest for life. |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | /Bhrigupati Singh. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : Oxford University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | , 2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiii, 335p. |
| Dimensions | : 24cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | 770 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe". From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh asks us to reconsider just what quality of life means. He shows how the Sahariyas conceive of aspiration, advancement and vitality in both material and spiritual terms and how such bridging can engender new possibilities of life. Singh organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. Authority remains contested, whether in divine or human forms; the state is both despised and desired; high and low castes negotiate new ways of living together, in conflict but also cooperation; new gods move across rival social groups; animals and plants leave their tracks on human subjectivity and religiosity; and the potential for vitality persists even as natural resources steadily disappear. Studying this milieu, Singh offers new ways of thinking beyond the religion-secularism and nature-culture dichotomies, juxtaposing questions about quality of life with political theologies of sovereignty, neighborliness and ethics, in the process painting a rich portrait of perseverance and fragility in contemporary rural India. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Rural India |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Poverty |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Spiritual and Material Striving |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bhrigupati Singh. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 25/11/2025 | International Book Distributors | 770.00 | 2 | 1 | 305.56 SIN | 31231 | 04/05/2026 | 02/02/2026 | 25/11/2025 | Books | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 25/11/2025 | International Book Distributors | 770.00 | 305.56 SIN | 31243 | 25/11/2025 | 25/11/2025 | Books |
