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Notes

1. The VDCA is a non-governmental organization among lower sections of
village communities in Pune district that supports activities like people’s
education, cultural awakening and social action, in particular those of the
spontaneous local groups associated under the name of the ‘Poor of the
Mountain’.
2. A patent example is the allegorical treatment of the act itself of grinding by
swamis and pandits absolutely at variance with the symbolic import that it
carries for the peasant women who grind and sing. See Poitevin and Rairkar
(1996: 25–90).
3. The single corpus of reference that tries to exhaustively cover a cluster of
only 131 villages and hamlets in Mawal area (Mulshi taluka, Pune district,
Maharashtra) comprises of more than 32,000 distichs as of today, and is
not yet complete though collection started in 1983.
4 See Mawal Reference Corpus RC/M, A:II-1.1 Institutional archive available
online at http://crdo.fr/crdo000735.

Reference

Poitevin, Guy and Hema Rairkar. 1996. Stonemill and Bhakti. New Delhi:
D.K. Printworld.