Browsing by Author "Jain, Juhi"

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    Rural Research Project: Grahanu
    (MICA, 2012) Jain, Juhi; Chauhan, Pallavi
    The villagers are extremely calm and patient and live in absolute harmony with their neighbors. The sex ratio is 40:60, female: male. They are like one big family and usually marriages don’t happen within the village. They look out for brides and grooms outside the village. The predominant style of marriage is the arranged one. There is not much of a hierarchy in terms of their occupation and household income. The main occupation is doing construction work and other labor in bigger villages like Naddi or in McLeodganj. However, there are a few big houses in the village, including that of an engineer who has come back to his village after his education, some who have land and houses in neighboring villages and hence use that as a source of income. However, even those with big houses with more than one television set, have people from the house doing labor work.
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    Rural research project: Totarani
    (MICA, 2012) Jain, Juhi; Balachander, Karthik; Venkatramani, Nandeetha; Batra, Yukti
    The Tota Rani Village is a basically a cluster of 60-65 houses on one side of the hill down Tota Rani School. The families staying in these houses are generally Gorkhas. They are associated to each other in some way or the other as all have their ancestral roots from Nepal. The village of Tota Rani is quite popular because of residence of one of the famous regional poet ShriMitrasen. The primary school of Tota Rani is named only after him. The village has the families which have served Indian Army at one point of time. The village culture comprises primarily of celebrating festivals together be it Diwali, Dusshhera or Shivratri. They follow a common temple of Shivji near Dal Lake for their religious rituals. There is no specific religious idol for the village. The people follow their own deity.