Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

by Bhrigupati Singh

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The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe." From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest for Life, Bhrigupati Singh asks us to reconsider just what quality of life means. He shows how the Sahariyas conceive of aspiration, advancement, and vitality in both material and spiritual terms, and how such...Read more
  • ISBN10 022619454X
  • ISBN13 9780226194547
  • Publish Date 6 April 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press