TY - BOOK AU - Singh, Bhrigupati. TI - Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India SN - 9780199459667 U1 - 305.5690954 23rd Ed. PY - 2015/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press N1 - Contents: 1. First Impressions, and Further. 2. The Headless Horseman of Central India: Sovereignty at Varying Thresholds of Life. 3. Mitra Varuma: State Power and Powerlessness. 4. The Coarse and the Fine: Contours of a Slow-Moving Crisis. 5. Contracts, Bonds, and Bonded Labor. 6. Erotics and Agonistics: Intensities Deeper than Deep Play. 7. Divine Migrations: Neighborliness between Humans, Animals and Gods. 8. The Waxing and Waning Life of Kalli. 9. Bansi Mahatmaya (The Greatness of Bansi), an Erotic Ascetic. 10. Departure and Marriages and Deaths. 11. The Quality of Life: A Daemonic View ER -