Chapter 1: Introduction: Rural Dignity: Conceptual Evolution, Manifestations and Emerging Challenges.- Chapter 2: 'Empowering' Women Through Sports: Case of Rural Haryana.- Chapter 3: Access to land and housing: An analysis of PMAY-Gramin.- Chapter 4: Housing and Women's Sense of Dignity in Rural India: A Field Analysis.- Chapter 5: Right to Work, Dignity and Welfare Surveillance in India's Rural Employment Programme.- Chapter 6: Re-Powering Rural Dignity: Rural Transformation Through Energy Transition.- Chapter 7: Recalibrating Quality of Education: A Study of Rural-Urban Schools in Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 8: Communalism in the Countryside: The Interface of Rural Transformation and Religious Majoritarianism in Bihar.- Chapter 9: Navigating Adversity: Struggle for the Dignity of the Nishad Community in Rural Western Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 10: Suicides in Agrarian Society: Exploring Dignity and Humiliation in Rural Punjab.- Chapter 11: Caste, Hierarchy and Dignity: A Study of Rural Uttar Pradesh.- Chapter 12: Reproduction of Rural Insecurities in Urban Spaces: Women Garment Workers in Delhi NCR region.- Chapter 13: Farmers' as Villains: Case of Air Pollution in National Capital Territory of Delhi and Stubble Burning in North India.