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Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira

Global Issues, Local Contexts:The Rabi Das of West Bengal / by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase - New Delhi: Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd., 2013 - p. XIV,268

This book is an ethnographic study of a community of Shoemakers / leather workers (the Rabi Das), and their transformations under global capitalism. The lived experiences of the Rabi Das are embedded within the broader context of India''s economic liberalisation as well as in the local system of class and cultural relations in Bengali society. The various chapters in the book provide a detailed analysis of the changing nature of their conditions of employment, education, lifestyle and survival strategies. In her richly textured narrative Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase uncovers the process of Rabi Das cultural and economic marginalisation despite six decades of efforts towards self-improvement. This edition also has a new Preface.
This book will be of interest to readers in anthropology, comparative sociology, development studies and Asian Studies.

ISBN: 9788125050520

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology
Group of People
People with Occupation
Shoemakers

Dewey Class. No.: 305.968531 / GAN-G