Abstract
The story is an attempt at experimental writing narrated through the perspective of the market of a drowned town. It is based on my on-going ethnographic doctoral research in the Garhwal region of the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India. The construction of a hydro-electric dam in the region led to the complete submergence of a central town and thirty-five villages while seventy-four villages were partially submerged. Nearly one hundred thousand people were affected, leading to forced displacement and subsequent re-settlement across the state. The market remembers its life as it now sits at the bottom of the dam reservoir.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.24.06
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Recommended Citation
Joshi, Saakshi
(2015)
"A Town Without a Market,"
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 24, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.24.06
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https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol24/iss1/6
