People's Archive of Rural India The everyday lives of everyday people

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Rural India — a living journal, a breathing archive

The everyday lives of everyday people, People’s Archive of Rural India, aims to capture the life of ordinary people as told by themselves. Its main focus is on labour.

Can a project’s success be judged on the basis of its never being completed? Yes, if it’s a living archive of the world’s most diverse and complex countryside. Rural India is in many ways the most diverse part of the planet. Its 833 million people include distinct societies speaking well over 700 languages, some of them thousands of years old. The People’s Linguistic Survey of India tells us the country as a whole speaks some 780 languages and uses 86 different scripts. But in terms of provision for schooling up to the 7th standard, just four per cent of those 780 are covered
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