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Narrow Fairways

- Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India
Af: Patrick Inglis Engelsk Paperback

Narrow Fairways

- Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India
Af: Patrick Inglis Engelsk Paperback
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India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country''s informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately 80 percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and the related structural disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the Indian elite hold fast to the idea that the poor need only work harder and show some discipline and they, too, can become rich. The results of this ambitious ten-year ethnography at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore shatter such self-serving illusions. In Narrow Fairways, Patrick Inglis combines participant observation, interviews, and archival research to show how social mobility among the poor lower-caste golf caddies who carry the golf sets of wealthy upper-caste members at these clubs is ultimately constrained and narrowed. The book highlights how elites secure and extend class and caste privileges, while also delivering a necessary rebuke to India''s present development strategy, which pays far too little attention to promoting quality health care, education, and other basic social services that would deliver real opportunities to the poor.
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India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country''s informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately 80 percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and the related structural disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the Indian elite hold fast to the idea that the poor need only work harder and show some discipline and they, too, can become rich. The results of this ambitious ten-year ethnography at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore shatter such self-serving illusions. In Narrow Fairways, Patrick Inglis combines participant observation, interviews, and archival research to show how social mobility among the poor lower-caste golf caddies who carry the golf sets of wealthy upper-caste members at these clubs is ultimately constrained and narrowed. The book highlights how elites secure and extend class and caste privileges, while also delivering a necessary rebuke to India''s present development strategy, which pays far too little attention to promoting quality health care, education, and other basic social services that would deliver real opportunities to the poor.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780190664770
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0190664770
Kategori: Kulturstudier
Udg. Dato: 13 aug 2019
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 160mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato: 13 aug 2019
Forfatter(e): Patrick Inglis
Forfatter(e) Patrick Inglis

Kategori Kulturstudier

ISBN-13 9780190664770

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 160mm

Udg. Dato 13 aug 2019

Oplagsdato 13 aug 2019

Forlag Oxford University Press Inc