Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India’s Tryst with Modernity

Jeffery, Roger; Heath, Anthony

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“…In 1982–1983, with memories of the Emergency still fresh, many villagers in both Dharmnagri and Jhakri initially suspected us of being involved in the sterilisation programme (P. Jeffery & Jeffery, 2010). Gradually, though, female sterilisation has become normalised in Dharmnagri and by 2005 about 30 per cent of the Dharmnagri women under 40 had been sterilised, compared with only three Jhakri women.…”

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Only when the boat has started sinking: A maternal death in rural north India

Jeffery

2010

Social Science & Medicine

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This paper uses a close reading of villagers’ responses to the death in childbirth of a Muslim woman to raise questions about India’s current policy emphasis on institutional delivery as a means of reducing maternal mortality. After introducing the context and methods of our research, we describe recent policy interventions related to maternal health, including the National Rural Health Mission established in 2005. We then outline villagers’ commentaries on the specific maternal death, focusing on the costs to women’s health (and sometimes life) of high fertility; the lack of care available from rural government facilities and staff and the preference for delivering at home with the aid of local practitioners; the financial constraints that make people hesitate to seek medical treatment; and the high costs of private treatment and the poor treatment experienced in government facilities. Our core argument is that government health care provision in rural Uttar Pradesh is embedded in a moral universe characterised by widespread and long-term mistrust of state services and that encouraging institutional deliveries without addressing the perceptions of potential service users is a seriously flawed approach to reducing maternal mortality. The paper draws primarily on ethnographic research funded by the Wellcome Trust during 2002–2005, in a Muslim village in rural Bijnor district (in north-western Uttar Pradesh).

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“…53–68). More recently, many Muslims in north India—including in Jhakri—have mistrusted the coercive tactics adopted during the polio eradication programme and rumours have been rife that polio vaccine renders children infertile (P. Jeffery & Jeffery, 2010). …”

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Only when the boat has started sinking: A maternal death in rural north India

Jeffery

2010

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“…The ethnographic method enables us to carefully examine the life-worlds of the urban villagers, thick with specific experiences, practices, memories and aspirations. It helps us to make sense of 'urban' and 'rural', 'modern' and 'traditional' as 'everyday terms' employed by the urban villagers themselves (Jeffery & Heath 2010). It allows us to explore the ambiguities, contestations, and transformations that are part of the processes of modernity and development as lived experiences, as processes of 'being, becoming, and transforming' (Finn 1988).…”

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‘First Our Fields, Now Our Women’: Gender Politics in Delhi’s Urban Villages in Transition

Govinda¹

2013

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In some of the earliest and most influential writing on cities, the village and the city, or the 'rural' and the 'urban', have been understood as being on the two ends of the historical continuum (see, for instance, Wirth 1964). 1 Mainstream Western theorizations on modernity and development have since then perpetuated the rather simplistic notion that what is urban is modern and what is rural is traditional (Robinson 2006). This is premised on the argument that cities represent an advance on life, a certain progress from primitive societies (Rostow 1960). Western Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution have been central to such an understanding of progress. These theorizations have been challenged from various perspectives (

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Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India’s Tryst with Modernity

Abstract: This chapter introduces the economic, social, and political aspects of Indian modernities. It considers the question of uneven modernisation and studies the sphere of politics. The Indian economy and reform is discussed in detail as well.

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Only when the boat has started sinking: A maternal death in rural north India

Only when the boat has started sinking: A maternal death in rural north India

‘First Our Fields, Now Our Women’: Gender Politics in Delhi’s Urban Villages in Transition

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