Shifting Landscapes The Making and Remaking of Village Commons in India

Name: Shifting Landscapes The Making and Remaking of Village Commons in India
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ISBN: 9780195673012

ISBN-10: 0195673018

ISBN-13: 9780195673012

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rita Brara

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This book is a high quality ethnographic study in the classical sense. The fundamental question that Brara asks in her book is whether there are other ways of thinking about the village than in terms of its distinctions of caste, vertical ties created by patron-client relations of congregation of private propertied peasantry. She offers the idea that villagers can and do represent and act on matters of common concern but that this does not commit us to thinking of village communities as harmonious wholes. Brara explores the institutional arrangements (commons) as a concept to analyze ideas of common good, the emergence of public action and property rights in Indian villages. She breaks from…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 332
Size: 8.70" wide x 5.70" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Introduction



'Commons' policy as practice : the state of Rajasthan (1955-95)



Village commons and the public sphere



Perspectives on commons' encroachment



The changing pattern of animal ownership and fodder provisioning



Are grazing lands 'wastelands'?



Conclusions : the making and remaking of village commons