Poverty and the Quest for Life (Record no. 68363)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199459667
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.569 SIN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Singh, Bhrigupati.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Poverty and the Quest for Life
Remainder of title : Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India
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, 335 p.
Dimensions ; 24 cm.
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.<br/><br/>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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Rural poor and marginalized communities
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Genre/form data or focus term Social conditions
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 02/06/2026   305.569 SIN VC177 02/06/2026 02/06/2026 VC Office Books Books Received from VC office
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