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100			_aGupta, Dipankar
245			_aWhither the Indian village: culture and agriculture in `rural' India
260			_c2005
300			_ap.751-58.
362			_a19 Feb
520			_aThe village in India, where life was once portrayed as `unchanging' and `idyllic', has in recent decades seen profound changes. The twin shackles that once decided matters for India's villagers, caste and agriculture, no longer exercise their vigorous hold. While a break in caste rigidities has fostered greater fluidity in occupational choices, agricultural stagnation has ensured the constant march, in increasing numbers, of employable people in the villages towards urban areas. At the same time, vote bank politics means that parties and politicians continue to pay lip-service to the cause of villages, chiefly the poor farmer. It is in the light of these changes that the `culture' surrounding agriculture and the village needs to be understood. While this culture is not altogether a stable one, its state of pronounced flux does hold out certain portents, whether these are understood by policy-makers and the vast majority of Indians, remains open to question. - Reproduced.
650			_aAgriculture - India
650			_aCulture - India
650			_aRural areas - India
650			_aRural development - India
650			_aRural development
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a64303
999			_c64303 _d64303