• ISBN13: 9780199497249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 464
• Original Price: INR 1495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 570 grams

Post India’s economic liberalization in the 1990s, the village ceased to be central to ongoing sociological concerns. As a result, the period saw a marginalization of rural life and agrarian economy in the National imagination. However, in the 21st century as India transforms, so does its rural life. This book revisits the realities of contemporary rural India, exploring the trajectories of change across regions such as those in rural economies, the relationship of villages to the outside world, and the dynamics of caste inequalities. The volume puts together 14 papers based on empirical studies carried out by sociologists, social anthropologists, and economists over the past 15 years to begin a holistic conversation on contemporary rural India which continues to be an important site of social, political, and economic activities. India’s villages in the 21st century stresses diversity as a fundamental structure of Indian Economy and society and illustrates the point by focusing on the economies, patterns of settlements, and organization of social and political life in India’s villages.

Surinder S. Jodhka is a professor of sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Edward Simpson is professor of social anthropology and director of the South Asia Institute at SOAS, London, United Kingdom.