Remembered Village

List of contents

FOREWORD
PREFACE

I How IT ALL BEGAN
II THE FIELD SITUATION
III THREE IMPORTANT MEN
IV THE UNIVERSE OF AGRICULTURE
V THE SEXES AND THE HOUSEHOLD
VI RELATIONS BETWEEN CASTES
VII CLASSES AND FACTIONS
VIII THE CHANGING VILLAGE
IX THE QUALITY OF SOCIAL RELATIONS
X RELIGION
XI FAREWELL

APPENDICES
GLOSSARY
INDEX

About the author

Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas was an Indian sociologist. He is mostly known for his work on caste and caste systems, social stratification, Sanskritisation and Westernisation in southern India and the concept of 'Dominant Caste'. 

Summary

Describes and analyzes life in Rampura in the late 1940s. In addition to the rich detail of village life and of a number of individual villagers, the author gives us insights into the nature of ethnographic research. He relates how he came to study this particular village. He also discusses the factors that could and did bias his research.

Additional text

"The real virtue of this most recent contribution by Dr. Srinivas is the consistently human, humane, and humanistic tone oft he observations and of the narration; the simple, straightforward style in which it is written; and the richness of anecdotal materials. . . . He writes modestly as a wise and knowledgeable man. He restores faith in the best tradition of ethnography. Without being popular, in the pejorative sense, it is a book any uninitiated reader can read with pleasure and enlightenment."

Product details

• Authors: M. N. Srinivas, M.N. Srinivas, Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas, Srinivas M. N.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.1980
• EAN: 9780520039483
• ISBN: 978-0-520-03948-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Center for South and Southeast; Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities