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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brara, Rita. Shifting landscapes. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)655073364 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rita Brara |
ISBN: | 0195673018 9780195673012 |
OCLC Number: | 63271864 |
Description: | ix, 321 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Commons' policy as practice : the state of Rajasthan (1955-95) -- 3. Village commons and the public sphere -- 4. Perspectives on commons' encroachment -- 5. changing pattern of animal ownership and fodder provisioning -- 6. Are grazing lands 'wastelands'? -- 7. Conclusions : the making and remaking of village commons. |
Responsibility: | Rita Brara. |
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Abstract:
Asks whether there are other ways of thinking about the village than in terms of its distinctions of caste, vertical ties created by patron-client relations of congregation of private propertied peasantry. This ethnographic study also explores the institutional arrangements (commons) as a concept to analyse ideas of common good.
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- Commons -- India -- Rajasthan -- Management.
- Natural resources, Communal -- India -- Rajasthan -- Management.
- Right of property -- India -- Rajasthan.
- Pasture, Right of -- India -- Rajasthan.
- Ressources naturelles communales -- Inde -- Rājasthān -- Gestion.
- Droit de propriété -- Inde -- Rājasthān.
- Droit de pâture -- Inde -- Rājasthān.
- Commons -- Management.
- Natural resources, Communal -- Management.
- Pasture, Right of.
- Right of property.
- India -- Rajasthan.