
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
This study investigates how Hindi short stories written after the era of Premchand reflect the evolving socio-economic realities and systemic distress of rural India. Vanashree Tripathi utilizes a literary-sociological framework to analyze how fictional narratives document the transition from colonial agrarian structures to post-independence state development programs. By examining the intersection of literature and history, the author argues that these stories serve as critical archives of the peasant experience amidst shifting political and economic landscapes.
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Scholars and literary critics recognize this work as a significant contribution to the study of regional Indian literature and its engagement with socio-political history. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the author's success in bridging the gap between literary analysis and agrarian sociology.
Page Count:
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Publication Date:
1900-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0192699628
ISBN-13:
9780192699626
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