Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India

Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190664770,0190664770,9780190664794, 0190664797

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• ISBN 10: 0190664797
• ISBN 13: 9780190664794
• Author: Patrick Inglis

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.3 billion people living on little more than a few dollars a day. Just as telling, the country’s informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately eighty percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and the related structural disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the Indian elite maintain that the poor need only work harder 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 healthcare, education, and other basic social services that would deliver real opportunities to the poor.

Table of contents: 

1. I. Labor & Land
2. 1. The “Caddie Question”
3. 2. Under Construction: The Making of Elite Ideology
4. II. Servility, Deference & Place
5. 3. The Labor of Aspiration
6. 4. The Boys of Banandur
7. 5. Caste Illa
8. III. Opportunity Costs
9. 6. The Burden of Distinction
10. 7. “It Will Become”: Twists of Fate
11. 8. Going Places
12. IV. Getting By & Falling Behind
13. 9. Escape from Challaghatta
14. 10. The (Mis)Fortunes of Ordinary Men
15. 11. On the Path to Development

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