Singh, Bhrigupati,  1979 -  <br/><br/>
Poverty and the quest for life :  spiritual and material striving in rural India / 
Bhrigupati Singh. 
 - xiii, 335 pages :  illustrations, map ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-329) and index. 
<br/><br/>First impressions, and further -- The headless horseman of central India : sovereignty at varying thresholds of life -- Mitra-Varuna : state power and powerlessness -- The coarse and the fine : contours of a slow-moving crisis -- Contracts, bonds, and bonded labor -- Erotics and agonistics : intensities deeper than deep play -- Divine migrations : neighborliness between humans, animals, and gods -- The waxing and waning life of Kalli -- Bansi mahatmaya (the greatness of Bansi), an erotic ascetic -- Departure, and marriages and deaths -- The quality of life : a daemonic view. 
<br/><br/> The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. It is home to the Sahariyas, officially classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe." The author organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226194400 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 9780226194547 (paperback : alkaline paper) 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>022619454X 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014016325 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rural poor--India--Rajasthan.<br/>Ethnology--India--Rajasthan.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rajasthan (India)--Social conditions.<br/>Rajasthan (India)--Social life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS485.  / SIN 2015