During her two weeks in Ajmer, Elizabeth spent her time in Kankarda, a small village on the outskirts of the city that which had been ordered by the government to sell of a portion of its lands in order to construct a new railway track. The tracks had not only divided the village's agricultural lands, but had also created fissures in its social and cultural fabric of the community. The railroad meant that India’s modernity, with its conveniences and deprivations, had arrived right at its doorstep, imposing new values and new dreams amongst a younger generation of villagers more interested in careers, conveniences and the city life. As the elderly looked on, their traditional agricultural way of life now irrelevant, they could see that their village had become a smaller version of the broader changes taking place in today’s India.