Singh, Bhrigupati, <br/><br/>
Poverty and the quest for life :  spiritual and material striving in rural India / 
Bhrigupati Singh. 
 - New Delhi :  Oxford University Press,  2015. 
 - xiii, 335 pages :  illustrations, map ; 
<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/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199459667 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rural poor<br/>Ethnology
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.56909544 SIN