ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a cursory summary of the village of Shora. Thereafter, it analyses the lives and livelihoods of participants. In particular, their involvement with livelihood sources such as the Sundarbans, agriculture, animal husbandry and poultry-rearing are discussed. Participants’ shifts of income from one livelihood source to another are detailed. Such shifts occurred between the 1980s and 1995, transforming livelihoods from agro-economy to gher cultivation to the Sundarbans Forest. The following section reflects on the role of dadon, a system of interest-free micro-loans with terms and conditions that facilitate livelihood activities and, at the same time, marginalise earning a livelihood in Shora. The next section examines how gender, marital status, religion, and geographical locations as intersectional dimensions are linked to the participants’ ways of earning their livelihoods.
