the making and remaking of village commons in India Brara, Rita. creator text ii New Delhi Oxford Oxford University Press 2006 monographic eng

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1 online resource (ix, 321 p.) : ill., maps. This is a high quality ethnographic study in the classical sense. The fundamental question that Brara asks 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. specialized Rita Brara. Includes bibliographical references and index. Commons India Rajasthan Management Natural resources, Communal India Rajasthan Management Right of property India Rajasthan Pasture, Right of India Rajasthan HD1289.I52 R363 2006 333.209544 9780199081813 (ebook) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195673012.001.0001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195673012.001.0001 StDuBDS 120822 20150804193949.0 EDZ0000099200