Rural India and Peasantry in Hindi Stories: Narratives After Premchand
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ISBN:
9780192871572
Publication date:
05/04/2023
Hardback
232 pages
Price: 1795.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780192871572
Publication date:
05/04/2023
Hardback
232 pages
Vanashree
Drawing on a rich storehouse of short stories in Hindi, after Premchand, the book evokes the entire spectrum of crises that the rural world has experienced since the early decades of independent India through the period of liberalization till the recent decades. The transcribed excerpts poignantly carry the spirit of rural India.
Rights: World Rights
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Description
Rural narratives after Premchand remained unnoticed because of not being written in English. Rural India and Peasantry: Ethnography in stories after Premchand is a study of literary representation of rural life in a vast expanse of land designated as the Hindi Heartland. What lends unique strength to this work is that after Premchand, fictional narrative has not really been dealt with such scholarly seriousness or contextualized in the socio-economic scenario of the rural world and peasantry. More than thirty stories discussed in ten chapters, inherit a strong tradition of peasant narratives since the times of Premchand, exposing the reader to an intricate array of messy complications and contingencies, the small peasantry and the rural world has experienced since the early decades of independent India through the period of liberalization till the recent decades. Exploring non- canonical rural stories in Hindi, unfolds a spectrum of ethnic-cultural and psychological biographies about the evolving rural scenario in the democratic India of our times. The substantial reference to concrete facts and data vindicate the realistic strain of the work. It would set a new example of interdisciplinary scholarship and open up new vistas of further scholarship, especially in the Cultural studies. The authentically translated excerpts, transcribe the spirit of rural India.
About the author:
Vanashree Professor and former Head, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Worked in MGKV university, as a Faculty in GWU Washington DC, 2008-2009, Served as Chair India Studies in the Dept of Theatre and Performance, Monash University Melbourne2017
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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction by Vanashree
Chapter 2 Village India: Difficult Stories
Chapter 3 Land Grab: The Dispossessed in the Spectacles of Jugaad
Chapter 4 Small Farmers of Cane and Paddy in Difficult Relationship with the State: Post-Harvest Delays and Non-Payment
Chapter 5 Rural Women Peasants in Triple Jeopardy: Conmen as Philanthropists
Chapter 6 Why Do Rural Poor Continue to Remain Uneducated
Chapter 7 Rural Migration: Dismantling Rural Resources
Chapter 8 When Hunger Hits theRural Poor, and Disabled:The Meal of Miceand Dead Cow
Chapter 9 Farmers in Death Row: Farming-Risky, Sisyphean; Usury-Back breaking
Chapter 10 Despoiled Environment in the Politics of
Vanashree
Vanashree
Description
Rural narratives after Premchand remained unnoticed because of not being written in English. Rural India and Peasantry: Ethnography in stories after Premchand is a study of literary representation of rural life in a vast expanse of land designated as the Hindi Heartland. What lends unique strength to this work is that after Premchand, fictional narrative has not really been dealt with such scholarly seriousness or contextualized in the socio-economic scenario of the rural world and peasantry. More than thirty stories discussed in ten chapters, inherit a strong tradition of peasant narratives since the times of Premchand, exposing the reader to an intricate array of messy complications and contingencies, the small peasantry and the rural world has experienced since the early decades of independent India through the period of liberalization till the recent decades. Exploring non- canonical rural stories in Hindi, unfolds a spectrum of ethnic-cultural and psychological biographies about the evolving rural scenario in the democratic India of our times. The substantial reference to concrete facts and data vindicate the realistic strain of the work. It would set a new example of interdisciplinary scholarship and open up new vistas of further scholarship, especially in the Cultural studies. The authentically translated excerpts, transcribe the spirit of rural India.
About the author:
Vanashree Professor and former Head, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Worked in MGKV university, as a Faculty in GWU Washington DC, 2008-2009, Served as Chair India Studies in the Dept of Theatre and Performance, Monash University Melbourne2017
Read MoreTable of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction by Vanashree
Chapter 2 Village India: Difficult Stories
Chapter 3 Land Grab: The Dispossessed in the Spectacles of Jugaad
Chapter 4 Small Farmers of Cane and Paddy in Difficult Relationship with the State: Post-Harvest Delays and Non-Payment
Chapter 5 Rural Women Peasants in Triple Jeopardy: Conmen as Philanthropists
Chapter 6 Why Do Rural Poor Continue to Remain Uneducated
Chapter 7 Rural Migration: Dismantling Rural Resources
Chapter 8 When Hunger Hits theRural Poor, and Disabled:The Meal of Miceand Dead Cow
Chapter 9 Farmers in Death Row: Farming-Risky, Sisyphean; Usury-Back breaking
Chapter 10 Despoiled Environment in the Politics of
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