References
- Ashtekar, S. 2008 The national rural health mission: A stocktaking. Economic and Political Weekly 43(37):23–26.
- Birtchnell, T. 2011 Jugaad as systemic risk and disruptive innovation in India. Contemporary South Asia 19(4):357–72. doi:10.1080/09584935.2011.569702
- Chattopadhyay, S., A. Mishra, and S. Jacob 2017 Safe. Yet Violent? Women’s Experiences with Obstetric Violence during Hospital Births in Rural Northeast India. Culture, Health & Sexuality 20(7):815–29.
- Chawla, J., ed. 2006 Birth and Birthgivers: The Power behind the Shame. New Delhi, India: Har-Anand Publications.
- Chawla, J., ed. 2014 How will the children be born? Shakti and satta in the context of childbirth. Samyukta: A Journal of Women’s Studies 14(2):168–84.
- Cosminsky, S. 2012 Birth and blame: Guatemalan midwives and reproductive risk. In Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience L. Fordyce and A. Maraesa, eds., Pp. 81–102. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
- Das, V., and D. Poole, ed. 2004 Anthropology in the Margins of the State. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
- Davis-Floyd, R., and M. Cheney, ed. 2019 Birth in Eight Cultures. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
- Farmer, P. 2001 Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. London: University of California Press.
- Ghoshal, R. 2014 Death of a dai. Economic & Political Weekly 49(42):27–29.
- Gupta, A. 2012 Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Iyer, V., K. Sidney, R. Mehta, and D. Mavalanka 2016 Availability and provision of emergency obstetric care under a public–private partnership in three districts of Gujarat, India: Lessons for universal health coverage. BMJ Global Health 1(1). doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2015-000019.
- Jauregui, B. 2014 Provisional agency in India: Jugaad and legitimation of corruption. American Ethnologist 41(1):76–91. doi:10.1111/amet.12061
- Jeffery, P., and R. Jeffery. 2010 Only when the boat has started sinking: A maternal death in rural north India. Social Science & Medicine 71(10):1711–18. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.
- Jeffery, P., R. Jeffery, and A. Lyon 1989 Labour Pains and Labour Power: Women and Childbearing in India. London: Zed Books.
- Jordan, B. 1989 Cosmopolitical obstetrics: Some insights from the training of traditional midwives. Social Science & Medicine 28(9):925–37. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(89)90317-1
- Jordan, B. 1993[1978] Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
- Jordan, B. 1997 Authoritative knowledge and its construction. In Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives R.E. Davis-Floyd and C.F. Sargent, eds., Pp. 55–79. London: University of California Press.
- Kaur, R. 2016 The innovative Indian: Common man and the politics of jugaad culture. Contemporary South Asia 24(3):313–27. doi:10.1080/09584935.2016.1214108
- Lane, K., and J. Garrod 2016 The return of the traditional birth attendant. Journal of Global Health 6(2). doi:10.7189/jogh.06.020302.
- Long, D., C. Hunter, and S. Van der Geest. 2008 Introduction: When the field is a ward or a clinic: Hospital ethnography. Anthropology and Medicine 15(2):71–78. doi:10.1080/13648470802121844
- Luksaite, E. 2016 The intimate state: Female sterilisation, reproductive agency and operable bodies in rural north India. PhD dissertation, Division of Anthropology, Brunel University London.
- Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner. n.d. Annual health survey 2012–13 fact sheet: Rajasthan. Ministry of Home Affairs. http://www.censusindia.gov.in/vital_statistics/AHSBulletins/AHS_Factsheets_2012-13/FACTSHEET-Rajasthan.pdf>
- Pigg, S. 1997 Authority in translation: Findings, knowing, naming, and training “traditional birth attendants” in Nepal. In Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives R.E. Davis-Floyd and C.F. Sargent, eds., Pp. 233–62. London: University of California Press.
- Pinto, S. 2008 Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India. New York: Berghahn Books.
- Price, S. 2014 Professionalizing midwifery: Exploring medically imagined labor rooms in rural Rajasthan. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 28(4):519–36. doi:10.1111/maq.12118
- Qadeer, I., B. Roy, and S. Gautam. 2015 Must history repeat itself? The role of dais in maternity care in backward districts of Himachal Pradesh. In INDIA: Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health. I. Qadeer, ed. Pp. 233–45. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press.
- Rajan, R. 2015 Sustainable growth in the financial sector. Speech delivered at the 4th C.K. Prahalad Memorial Lecture, September 18. RBI Bulletin.
- Rao, K., S. Ramani, S. Murthy, I. Hazarika, N. Khandpur, M. Chokshi, S. Khanna. et. al. 2010 Health Worker Attitudes toward Rural Service in India: Results from Qualitative Research. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
- Roy, B., I. Qadeer, M. Sadgopal, J. Chawla, and S. Gautam 2021 Giving birth at home in resource-scarce regions of India: An argument for making the women-centric approach of the traditional dais sustainable. In Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times K. Gutchow, R. Davis-Floyd, and B.A. Daviss, eds., Pp. 217–32. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
- Rozario, S. 1998 The dai and the doctor: Discourses on women’s reproductive health in rural Bangladesh. In Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific K. Ram and M. Jolly, eds., Pp. 144–76. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Rozario, S. 2002 The healer on the margins: The dai in rural Bangladesh. In The Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia S. Rozario and G. Samuel, eds., Pp. 130–46. London: Routledge.
- Rozario, S., and G. Samuel, ed. 2002 The Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge.
- Sadgopal, M. 2009 Can maternity services open up to the indigenous traditions of midwifery? Economic and Political Weekly 44(16):52–59.
- Santoro, P. 2011 Liminal biopolitics: Towards a political anthropology of the umbilical cord and the placenta. Body & Society 17(1):73–93. doi:10.1177/1357034X10394668
- Sidney, K., V. Diwan, Z. El-Khatib, and A. De Costa 2012 India’s JSY cash transfer program for maternal health: Who participates and who doesn’t – A report from Ujjain district. Reproductive Health 9(2):1–7.
- Srivatsan, R. 2015 Seva, Saviour and State: Caste Politics, Tribal Welfare and Capitalist Development. Oxford, UK: Routledge.
- Stanford-ISERDD Study Collective. 2016 Maternal mortality, technological innovations, and therapeutic strategies. In Living and Dying in the Contemporary World. V. Das and C. Han, eds. Pp47–66. Oakland: University of California Press.
- Towghi, F. 2004 Shifting policies toward traditional midwives: Implications for reproductive health in Pakistan. In Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination A. Castro and M. Singer, eds., Pp. 79–96. Plymouth, UK: Altamira Press.
- Tsing, A. 1993 In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-way Place. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Unnithan-Kumar, M. 2002 Midwives among others: Knowledge of healing and the politics of emotions in Rajasthan, Northwest India. In The Daughters of Hariti: Childbirth and Female Healers in South and Southeast Asia S. Rozario and G. Samuel, eds., Pp. 109–29. London: Routledge.
- Van Hollen, C. 2003 Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India. Berkeley: University of California Press.