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From Field to Factory
From Field to Factory explores the impact of a modern factory on a Bengal agricultural village and the impact of the village's social and ideological systems on the factory. Morton Klass provides ethnographic data on life and work in both the village and factory and assesses theories of community, caste, village religion, and industrialization. This book will interest sociologists and anthropologists interested in South Asia, community structure, caste, village-level religion, and the anthropology of work. Previously published in 1978 by the Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
Dalits Development and Change
Contents: Introduction, Socio-Economic Background of the Study Villages, Development Process and Dalits The Bauris, Development Impact on the Bauri Beneficiaries, Consequential Changes, Quality of Life, Summary and Conclusion.
Bauri
The caste system of India, has segregated the Bauris and other scheduled castes from the rest of the society to such an extent that they were denied even the basic human rights. Interestingly, the absence of freedom of occupation, illiteracy, low income, restriction on needs and stigma on menial labor destroyed the economy of the scheduled castes. As a result, scheduled castes remained socially out caste, economically dependent, politically powerless and culturally backward. The central and state government has taken many steps for reservation in education and employment for their economic and cultural upliftment. The present book highlights the components like population composition, sex ratio, fertility, family welfare, morbidity and mortality. Moreover, it also presents their economic activities, occupational pattern, educational standard, source of income etc. This book will be useful to scholars of various disciplines like Economics, Demography, Anthropology and Sociology.
The Meanings of Things
This unique and fascinating book concentrates on the varying roles and functions that material culture may play in almost all aspects of the social fabric of a given culture. The contributors, from Africa, Australia and Papua New Guinea, India, South America, the USA, and both Eastern and Western Europe, provide a rich variety of views and experience in a worldwide perspective. Several of the authors focus on essential points of principle and methodology that must be carefully considered before any particular approach to material culture is adopted. One of the many fundamental questions posed in the book is whether or not all material culture is equivalent to documents which can be 'read' an...
The Last Lambada
Novel about Lambadi, Indic people.
Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik
Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement. His evocative fictional world throws into relief the lives of the downtrodden in in contemporary India. This volume brings his fiction to a new readership by presenting English translations of a selection of his most powerful stories. This book is part of the Voices from the Margins series, which seeks to enhance the visibility of literary texts and traditions from various Indian languages and also to bring Dalit literature to the center stage. Pramanik focuses extensively on lives and lifestyles of the people in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world and an ecologically fragil...
