rows of neat houses on either side of the broad tarmac road. The houses have neat gardens in which roses grow and the grass is green. The air is clean and in it there is no cow dung smoke but there is no soul in the new township. Its people have no memories of what Udaipur was like, they are new comers, they don’t have common ancestors, they don’t know what they did, who they worshipped, what sorrow and joy they felt. They don’t belong to the soil of Mewar; they have come to the town because of work; they love the lakes and the low lying hills that keep them cool in the hot summer months. In the new town the rich and the poor are separated by the rose gardens; they don’t know each other; they live separate lives. The only thing common between them seems the tarmac road, on which the poor too have the right to walk. (2-3) Note that this road is utterly emptied of the metaphoric chargeSarathi places on his road of parable, and that modern city planningrealigns topographical and economic boundaries. The populationis a labor force, mercenaries in India’s industrial modernization.Their structuring consists of individual connections to corporateentities, not webs of reciprocal and traditional relationshipswoven around an agricultural economy. Mewar is a landscape tobe consumed, not the presence of a sociohistorical "soul"as sensuous as cowdung smoke.
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