Research Catalog

Title

Village voices : forty years of rural transformation in South India / T. Scarlett Epstein, A.P. Suryanarayana, T. Thimmegowda.

Author

Epstein, T. Scarlett (Trude Scarlett)

Publication

Walnut Creek, CA : Altamira Press, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Suryanarayana, A. P., 1931-
• Thimmegowda, T., 1945-

Description

242 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"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. T. Scarlett Epstein, an expatriate scholar, was assisted by A.P. Suryanarayana when she conducted her first field research in these villages between 1954 and 1956. These two researchers studied the villages for a second time in 1970 and Professor Epstein predicted the changes that would occur by the turn of the century. In 1996-97, they were joined by T. Thimmegowda - an exceptional researcher from one of these villages - for this re-study and found that most of her prognostications were fairly accurate." "Another unusual feature of this book is that not only does each co-author describe and analyse the changes from her or his perspective but, wherever feasible, they allow their village informants to speak for themselves."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte 1950-1990
• Rural development > India
• Social change > India
• Villages > India
• India > Rural conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: Village Studies with a Difference / T. Scarlett Epstein -- pt. I. Experiences of a Research Assistant / A.P. Suryanarayana. 2. My First Experience of Village Life -- pt. II. An Insider's Views / T. Thimmegowda. 3. Wangala's Traditional Social System. 4. How Wangala's Economy has Changed since 1954. 5. How Wangala's Political and Cultural Practices have Changed. 6. The Pros and Cons of Wangala's Socio-economic Development -- pt. III. A Researcher's Views / T. Scarlett Epstein. 7. The Preliminaries of a Field Study. 8. The Impact of Canal Irrigation on Wangala and Dalena, 1954-56. 9. Re-Exposure to Mysore Villages in 1970. 10. Predictions Based on Micro-society Studies. 11. Another Re-study in the 1990s. 12. How the Two Villages have Changed. 13. Economic Change Factors. 14. Political Change Factors. 15. New Lives and Old Traditions. 16. Predictions: Wrong and Right -- pt. IV. The Way Ahead / T. Scarlett and T. Thimmegowda. 17. What the Future Holds -- App. 1. Note on Documentary Film -- App. 2. Poems -- App. 3. Questionnaire.

ISBN

• 0761992650 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0761992669 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98024646^

OCLC

• 43393531
• SCSB-10336927

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library