TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruud, Arild Engelsen 
TI  - Poetics of village politics: the making of West Bengal's rural communism
SN  - 9781032263632
U1  - 320.532 RUU/P 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - United Kingdom -- 
PB  - Routledge -- 
KW  - Communism
KW  - India
KW  - West Bengal
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Rural
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 1. Anthropology and History of Village Politics 

2. Small Communities in Landscape and History 

3. Two Stories About Power and Influence 

4. Road, Poetry and Some Crafty Young Men 

5. Caste Stereotypes and Communist Mobilization 

6. Formal Politics and Informal Politics 

7. Gossip and Reputation: The Making of Village Leaders 

8. Conclusion

N2  - riginally published in 2003, this volume studies village politics and the changes brought about in rural society through political developments. It focuses on the social, political and cultural circumstances of communist mobilization in rural West Bengal
ER  -