| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Modern South Asia |
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Modern South Asia series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Series -- Cultivating Democracy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Event and Democracy -- 2. Context: The Village in a Democracy -- 3. Scandal: Cultivating Competition -- 4. Harvest: Cultivating Cooperation -- 5. Sacrifice: Cultivating Faith -- 6. Election: Cultivating Citizenship -- 7. Cultivating Democracy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Cultivating Democracy is the first study of its kind of the world’s largest democracy that shows how the values of republicanism are essential for successful democratic practice. In 1950, after independence, India constituted itself as a sovereign democratic republic. While democracy indicated the character of the vertical representative nature of the relationship between citizens and state, the term republic outlined the horizontal relationship of fraternity between people and an active engagement by citizens. The discussion of Indian politics in this book thereby attends to both its institutional form and its democratic culture and shows how the project of democracy is incomplete unless it is also accompanied by a continual cultivation of active citizenship of republicanism. This book is an anthropological study of the relationship of formal political democracy and the cultivation of active citizenship in one particular rural setting in India, studied from 1998 to 2013. It draws on deep ethnographic engagement with the people and social life in two villages, both during elections and in the time in between them, to show how these two temporalities connect. The analysis shows how an agrarian village society produces the social imaginaries required for democratic and republican values. The ethnographic microscope on a single paddy growing setting allows us to examine how the various social institutions of kinship, economy, and religion are critical sites for the continual civic cultivation of cooperation, vigilance, redistribution, inviolate commitment, and hope—values that are essential for democracy"--Back cover |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on May 12, 2022) |
| Subject |
Social participation -- India -- Case studies
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India
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Democracy -- India
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects
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Democracy
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Manners and customs
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Rural conditions
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Social participation
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Rural conditions
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India -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197601891 |
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0197601898 |
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9780197601907 |
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0197601901 |
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