Narrow Fairways
Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India
Series: Global and Comparative Ethnography;
- Publisher's listprice GBP 33.99
-
16 238 Ft (15 465 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 1 624 Ft off)
- Discounted price 14 614 Ft (13 919 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
16 238 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: Expected time of arrival: end of January 2026.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 August 2019
- ISBN 9780190664770
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 160x236x22 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 maps ; 15 black and white halftones 0
Categories
Short description:
In Narrow Fairways, Patrick Inglis tracks the experiences of poor lower-caste golf caddies at exclusive golf clubs in Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley, as they struggle against caste and class discrimination to lift up themselves and their families.
MoreLong description:
India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, the country's informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or approximately 80 percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures and the related structural disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the Indian elite hold fast to the idea that the poor need only work harder and show some discipline 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 health care, education, and other basic social services that would deliver real opportunities to the poor.
Narrow Fairways: Getting By & Falling Behind in the New India gives readers important insight into the nature of social mobility in India today. Elaborate notes are scholarly and helpful in understanding the context and the author's arguments. The language is lucid and the book is gripping. It will be of interest to students and scholars of social sciences, and general readers who are interested in understanding social mobility in contemporary India.
Table of Contents:
Note to Readers
Dramatis Personae
Map of City & Clubs
Introduction
Part One: Labor and Land
1: The "Caddie Question"
2: Under Construction: The Making of Elite Ideology
Part Two: Servility, Deference, and Place
3: The Labor of Aspiration
4: The Boys of Banandur
5: Caste Illa
Part Three: Opportunity Costs
6: The Burden of Distinction
7: "It Will Become": Twists of Fate
8: Going Places
Part Four: Getting By, Falling Behind
9: Escape from Challaghatta
10: The (Mis)Fortunes of Ordinary Men
11: On the Path of Development
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
