The resilience of the rural is Jodhka’s central theme. The idyllic and cohesive Indian village, a faulty idea ... India’s countryside still houses a much larger population than its cities.

Surinder S Jodhka’s book The Indian Village – Rural Lives in the 21st Century presents an objective assessment of villages and dispels several myths around the idea of a village after ...

Given the hegemonic position of categories such as peasantry and its uncritical use in the Indian context ... Prosperous rural residents began to invest in building pukka houses.