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This book illustrates the intertwining of the local (family, neighbourhood, village(s)) dynam-ics of patriotism, communalism and nationalism with the wider (regional and national) social and political processes through a social biography.

Debal K. SinghaRoy is former Professor of Sociology IGNOU, New Delhi. His works include Identity, Society and Transformative Social Categories; Towards a Knowledge Society; Peasant Movements in Post-Colonial India; Social Development and the Empowerment of the Marginalised; Women in Peasant Movements; Dissenting Voices and Transformative Action: Social Movements in a Globalising World; Surviving Against Odds: Marginalised in a Globalised World; Interrogating Social Development; Women, New Technology and Development; among others.