In the Kacch

<p> This personal narrative about life in a remote desert region of western India tells of how love of place and love of person find their equilibrium in a world far removed from modernity. Yet this small distant land of kingship and pastoral life is rapidly being eroded by the new India of commerce and industrialization.</p><p> The author describes how an ancient society is transformed by the culture of consumption where the lyrical beauty of balance exchange and loyalty is translated into a single market economy. The people and places of post-Partition Kacch where even the land and value systems of a lately independent India now appear in a nostalgic light are described in detail. This is a record of private emotion and physical terrain of traditions and of profound social practice.</p>