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	Village Voices by Epstein
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This book sets out in detail, and in a very engaging manner, the thrills as well as the difficulties involved in living with and at the same time studying rural societies. A unique feature of this absorbing account is that it documents forty years of change (both positive and negative) in two villages of south India by the same team of researchers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Village Studies with a Difference T SCARLETT EPSTEIN
I. EXPERIENCES OF A RESEARCH ASSISTANT - A P SURYANARAYANA: My First Experience of Village Life
II. AN INSIDER`S VIEWS - T THIMMEGOWDA: Wangala`s Traditional Social System
How Wangala`s Economy has Changed since 1954
How Wangala`s Political and Cultural Practices have Changed
The Pros and Cons of Wangala`s Socio-economic Development
III. A RESEARCHER`S VIEWS--T SCARLETT EPSTEIN: The Preliminaries of a Field Study
The Impact of Canal Irrigation on Wangala and Dalena, 1954-56
Re-exposure to Mysore Villages in 1970
Predictions Based on Micro-society Studies
Another Re-study in the 1990s
How the Two Villages have Changed
Economic Change Factors
Political Change Factors
New Lives and Old Traditions
Predictions: Wrong and Right
IV. THE WAY AHEAD - T SCARLETT EPSTEIN and T THIMMEGOWDA: What the Future Holds
Appendices
GlossaryISBN - 9780761992660

Pages : 244