Subject(s): Villages in India -- Rural conditions -- Caste, Kinship, Locality -- Gender -- Economy -- Power and Politics -- Village community -- past of Indian villages -- Villages in Orissa -- Chanukhera , Uttar Pradesh -- Jajmani structure of North India -- Caste, gender and locality in rural Rajasthan -- Economy and survival -- Socio-economic structure of Tamil villages -- Landless women labourers, production and reproduction -- Palanpur : occupational change, land ownership and social inequality -- Statutory of panchayat -- Community and the politics of honour -- Religion, culture and ideology -- Rituals of the villages -- Social construction of cultural identities in rural Kashmir -- Rural development projects and change -- Farming in forest -- Widowhood