Kerala, Society and Politics
Author : E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
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Author : E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
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Author : Filippo Osella
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 32,82 MB
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745316932
Filippo and Caroline Osella, anthropologists who spent three years in rural Kerala, south India, write about the modern search for upward social mobility: the processes involved, the ideologies that support or thwart it, and what happens to the people involved. They focus on the caste called Izhavas, a group that in the mid-19th century consisted of a small land-owning and titled elite and a large mass of landless and small tenants who were largely illiterate and considered untouchable, and who eked out a living by manual labor and petty trade. In the 20th century, Izhavas pursued mobility in many social arenas, both as a newly united caste and as families. The work considers how successful the mobility has been and looks at the effects on their society of an ethos of progress. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
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Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9789390022274
Author : G. Radhakrishna Kurup
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9788178352848
The study reveals that there is no relationship between caste and factional orientation in the politics of Congress factionalism. It discusses factionalism in Congress party, Congress factionalism in Kerala, social base of factionalism. (The book is a serious empirical study of factionalism in Kerala).
Author : K. Ravi Raman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135150060
This book is the most comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it sheds new light on the paradoxes of the Indian state and critiques its model of economic development.
Author : Manali Desai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1134133324
Chapter 1 Old legacies, new protests: Welfare and left rule in democratic India -- chapter 2 The social bases of rule and rebellion: Colonial Kerala and Bengal, 1792-1930 -- chapter 3 State formation and social movements: Colonial Kerala and Bengal compared, 1865-1930 -- chapter 4 Political practices and left ascendancy in Kerala, 1920-47 -- chapter 5 Structure, practices and weak left hegemony in Bengal, 1925-47 -- chapter 6 Insurgent and electoral logics in policy regimes: Kerala and Bengal compared, 1947 to the present.
Author : Robin Jeffrey
Publisher : New York : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
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Author : Janaki Srinivasan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262370379
How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development. Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India—the circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in information kiosks operated by a nonprofit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthan—to explore three uses of information to support goals of social change. Countering claims that information is naturally and universally empowering, Srinivasan shows how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender. Srinivasan draws on archival and ethnographic research to challenge the idea of information as objective and factual. Using the concept of an “information order,” she examines how the meaning and value of information reflect the social relations in which it is embedded. She asks why casting information as a tool of development and solution to poverty appeals to actors across the political spectrum. She also shows how the power to label some things information and others not is at least as significant as the capacity to subsequently produce, access, and leverage information. The more faith we place in what information can do, she cautions, the less attention we pay to its political lives and to the role of specific social structures, individual agency, and material form in the defining, production, and use of that information.
Author : Matthew Martin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004439021
For the first time, Tantra, Ritual Performance and Politics in Nepal and Kerala offers a comparative approach to Tantric mediumship as observed in two locales: Navadurgā rituals in Bhaktapur, Nepal, and Teyyāṭṭam in North Kerala.
Author : K. K. N. Kurup
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788170990949
Articles on land tenure and social change; covers chiefly up to the mid-20th century.