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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Rural India And Peasantry In Stories -- The Focus Of This Study On Narratives In Hindi -- Rural Economic Conditions: Era Of Premchand And The Rise Of Hindi -- India's Freedom Synchronized With The Freedom Of Peasantry -- Post-independence Rural India And The Programmes Espoused By The State -- The Impact Of Green Revolution: Agriculture Embodied Chaos Of India In The Throes Of Development -- Fasal Bima Yojana 2016 (prime Minister Crops Insurance Plan) -- Indebtedness And The Financial Assistance Programmes Gram Swaraj: A Farce -- Agrarian Society In Deep Distress -- Why Only Short Story -- A Note On Translation Of Excerpts From Hindi Into English -- 1. Village India: Difficult Stories -- 'there Cannot Be Good Stories Of Peasantry -- There Are Only Difficult Stories' -- From Premchand To Shrilal Shukla: Colonialism To Elite Nationalisms -- Winter's Night ('poos Ki Raat') Is Severe -- Usury Renders Them Refugees In Their Own Land -- Tortuous Snare Of Moneylending: Private Loaners And State Assistance Programs -- Panchayats To Rural Banks: Agencies Of Rural Welfare Doublethink In The Welfare State: Experts And Intermediaries -- Deal Done! An Ailing Buffalo With Three Teats -- Poor Peasants, Targets Of Indignity Of Vasectomy -- Indirect Violence: Land Ceiling Act -- Rural Population, Streaming To Distant Lands -- Clearing Of Forests Have Cleared Even Vultures And Bats, Neel Gai, Or Even The Crowd Of Deer -- The Village, A Site Of Crimes, No Police Patrolling -- The Caste Of Power Matters -- Toddy Sinks Hori Into Unthinking Stupor, Prolefeed Lends Illusion -- Dreary, Drudging Village, But There Is Surfeit Of Bright Images To Keep The Blues Away 2. Land Grab: The Dispossessed In The Spectacles Of Jugaad -- Faustian Bargain: 'bhudan' -- They 'hold Your Nose From Behind' -- Resistance To Indigo Planting: 'chest Stained With Blood' -- The Grim Outcome Of Development -- Chakbandi (land Ceiling): Benami Hol