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Table of Contents
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List of Figures |
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List of Tables |
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Acknowledgments |
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Seeking Success, Finding Farmers |
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Questions for Cooperative Dairying |
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Development, Villages, Identities |
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Beyond Success and Failure |
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Constructing the Village |
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Small Farmers and Agrarian Politics |
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Gender and Rural Development |
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Comparisons and Stories |
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Two Kinds of Success |
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Space and Place |
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Comparisons and Case Studies |
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Subjects of Storytelling |
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Outline of the Chapters |
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Chapter 2: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories of Dairy Development |
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Act 1: Colonial Connections |
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Constructing the Patidar Caste |
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Patidars and Peasant Politics |
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Act 2: Dairy Development |
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Politics and Technology in Anand's Cooperatives |
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Cooperative Dairying as a National Model |
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International Funding for the Replication of Cooperatives |
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Act 3: Liberalization |
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Cooperative Dairying Beyond the World Bank |
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Chapter 3: Traces of Traveling Villages: Linking Spatial and Social Arrangements |
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Migrations and Mahdol: Between the Fields and the Town |
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Spatial Divisions and Social Identities |
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At the Urban-Rural Boundary |
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Land Reforms |
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Marriage Circles |
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Religious Differences |
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Farmers and Fisherpeople in Saundara: Agricultural Land and the River |
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Spatial Divisions and Social Identities |
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A Flood and the Patidar-Rajput Alliance |
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Questioning the New Village |
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An Adivasi Sarpanch |
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Preparing Ground for Dairy Development |
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Chapter 4: Local Struggles Over Dairy Cooperatives: Political and Economic Meanings |
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The Value of Mahdol's Dairy Cooperative |
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Against Private Traders |
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Conflicts Between Patels |
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Networks Beyond the Village |
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Saksham (Capable) Farmers of Saundara |
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The Uncertainty of Local Markets for Milk |
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Dairying Knowledge and Political Skills |
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Village Cooperatives in Wider Agrarian Politics |
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Local Politics of Participation in Cooperative Dairying |
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Chapter 5: From Crossbred Cows to Cash: Management of Milk Flows |
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Debating Crossbred Cows |
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National Policies on Indigenous and European Breeds |
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Supporting Crossbred Cows in Mahdol |
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Refusing Crossbred Cows in Saundara |
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Timings and Technologies |
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Cooperative and Agricultural Rhythms |
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Measuring Milk |
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Transporting Milk |
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The Many Meanings of Profit |
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Regularity of Payments in Mahdol |
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Links with Agriculture in Saundara |
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Local Consumption of Milk |
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Alternative Models of Dairying |
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Nomadic Herders Around Mahdol |
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Goat Ownership in Saundara |
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Flows of Milk and Power |
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Chapter 6: Mixing Dairying and Agriculture: Irrigated Land and Draft Animals |
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Agricultural Resources and Cooperative Membership |
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Land and Membership in Mahdol |
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Mahdol's Irrigation Cooperative |
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Land, Irrigation, and Membership in Saundara |
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Importance of Bullocks |
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Diversification of Livelihoods |
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Saundara's Sand Quarrying Cooperatives |
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Cooperative Dairying as Mixed Farming |
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Chapter 7: Between Homes and Fields: The Diversity of Women's Work |
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Official and Critical Perspectives on Women and Dairy Development |
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Dairying Work and the Household Economy |
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Limited Options for Women's Development |
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Resemblance to Waged Employment: Women's Work in Mahdol |
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Preference for Agriculture: Women's Work in Saundara |
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Limits of Women's Participation |
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Management and Members in Mahdol |
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Farmers and Laborers in Saundara |
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Gender Bases of Dairy Development |
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Chapter 8: Conclusion: Rethinking Successful Development |
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Politics of Successful Development: Reasserting Village Spaces and Identities |
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Significance of Small Farmers: Linking Agriculture and Dairying |
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Successful Development as Women's Work |
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The Future of Cooperative Dairying |
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Notes |
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References |
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Index |