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Global issues, local contexts : the Rabi Das of West Bengal /

An ethnographic study of a community of shoemakers and their transformations under India's economic liberalisation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Orient Longman, 2001.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Economic and social organisation of Krishnagar and Nadia district--Cultural account of the Rabi Das--From Chamars to Rabi Das--Demise of the artisan: changing nature of men's work--Demise of subsistence: changing nature of women's work--Growing up as Rabi Das.