Overview of Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India Book

Poverty in rural India: Is this a permanent condition? Are villagers immobilized by a rigid caste system, limited resources and economic exploitation? This book is about villagers who have done remarkable things with their lives, people who have broken the constraints of poverty and inequality to become innovative and mobile. It is written partly by one villager who found a career doing research on social change. Inside-Outside narrates stories of grassroots change and innovation. These stories are discussed from the combined view of an insider (Baviskar), who grew up in a village in western India and an outsider (Attwood), who came to study social change in the same region. Telling life stories from people who taught and surprised them, they challenge common stereotypes about Indian villagers stereotypes of passivity, fatalism and stagnation. Baviskar's life and experience of change in his home village exemplify grassroots initiative and innovation. He was born as the son of an impoverished farmer in a drought-stricken village in western Maharashtra. Ability, hard work and some dramatic twists of fate enabled him to attend college and then complete a doctorate in India's premier sociology department. In contrast to Baviskar, Attwood is a complete outsider, having grown up in a suburb near Chicago in the US heartland. He stumbled into anthropology and spent several years in India, doing fieldwork in the region where Baviskar grew up. The two met in 1969, they became friends and began four decades of collaborative research. Here they tell the stories of villagers who changed their own lives and who also, in many cases, changed the lives of others. These stories describe rapid innovation and institution-building in the countryside, challenging an array of common stereotypes about village life in India. Seeking explanations for change, it helps to look at village life from many angles. Inside and outside views are complementary and provide a more complete picture.Table of Contents:Preface IntroductionPilkhod and BeyondInside the Family (Pilkhod)Inside the Village (Pilkhod)High School (Chalisgaon)College and University (Pune and Delhi) Oak Park and BeyondEarly Days (Oak Park)Attwoods and Allied Families (USA)Leaving Home (Deep Springs, Berkeley, Chicago) Outsider in India (Bichpuri)Inside Out and Back AgainMarriage Out (Chalisgaon, Pune, Delhi)Discovering Sociology (Delhi)Fieldwork Back Home (Kopargaon Sugar Factory)From Outside InHow I Returned to India (Pune District)I Was Misinformed (Malegaon Village)Villagers as Agents of History (Nira Valley)Inside and OutOutsider in Sanjaya Village (Gujarat)Outside and Inside the Family (Pilkhod)Thoughts on Cooperation, Inequality and Points of ViewCooperation and Controversy Villager Sociology, Economic Inequality and PovertyCaste Barriers to Initiative and InnovationPoints of viewGlossaryBibliographyIndex

• Book Type :

Inside

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

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• ISBN - 10 :

8132113500

• Inside-Outside: Two Views of Social Change in Rural India Published On :

2 Jan 2014

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Students and Professionals:Textbooks, Humanities, Inside

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