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020			_a9780199459667
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c122164 _d10/11/2025
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c122163 _d10/11/2025
082			_a305.56 SIN
100			_aSingh, Bhrigupati.
245			_aPoverty and the quest for life. _c/Bhrigupati Singh.
260			_aNew Delhi _b : Oxford University Press _c, 2015.
300			_axiii, 335p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b770
520			_aThe 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			_aRural India
650			_aPoverty
650			_aSpiritual and Material Striving
700			_aBhrigupati Singh.
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