In the Kacch: A Memoir of Love and Place
Author:   Kevin McGrath
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
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9780786496532


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   06 January 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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This personal narrative about life in a remote desert region of western India tells of how love of place and love of person find their equilibrium in a world far removed from modernity. Yet this small, distant land of kingship and pastoral life is rapidly being eroded by the new India of commerce and industrialization. The author describes how an ancient society is transformed by the culture of consumption where the lyrical beauty of balance, exchange and loyalty is translated into a single market economy. The people and places of post-Partition Kacch, where even the land and value systems of a lately independent India now appear in a nostalgic light, are described in detail. This is a record of private emotion and physical terrain, of traditions and of profound social practice.

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Author:   Kevin McGrath
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780786496532


ISBN 10:   0786496533
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   06 January 2015
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments deleteviii Preface Part I. Dhrangadhra: On the Mainland II. Mandvi: The Old Sea Coast III. Bidhada: Our Home Part IV. Dhinodhar: Gifts of Friendship V. Lakhpat: Modernizing a Tradition VI. Mata-No-Madh: The Unspeakable VII. Kacch: Art of Walking Bibliography Index

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Kevin McGrath is an associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and poet in residence at Lowell House, Harvard University. McGrath lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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