Narrow Fairways: Getting by & Falling Behind in the New India by Inglis, Patrick

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

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.3 billion people living on little...
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Narrow Fairways: Getting by & Falling Behind in the New India by Inglis, Patrick

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

CHF 75.98

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

CHF 75.98
Author: Patrick Inglis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Patrick Inglis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2019
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780190664770

About the Author

Patrick Inglis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College. He teaches and writes on matters of global development, labor, and inequality.



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