About the Book: Narrow Fairways
India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.3 billion
people living on little more than a few dollars a day. Just as telling, the
countrys informal working population numbers nearly 500 million, or
approximately eighty percent of the entire labor force. Despite these figures
and the related structural disadvantages that imperil the lives of so many, the
Indian elite maintain that the poor need only work harder and they, too, can
become rich. The results of this ambitious ten-year ethnography at exclusive
golf clubs in Bangalore shatter such self-serving illusions. In Narrow Fairways,
Patrick Inglis combines participant observation,