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Peasants and Nabobs: Agrarian Radicalism in Late Eighteenth Century Tamil Country
By Chitra Sivikumar and S. S. Sivakumar
ISBN:
81-7075-031-8
Year:
1993
Pages:
112 (Hard
Bound)
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An interesting aspect of this study is the focus on the indigenous socio-economic institutions which evolved over centuries. . . Some sociological concepts like jati and kulam are
analyzed at length. The jati-kinship nexus played an important role in the management and regulation of local institutions like tanks and temples, in addition to the landed estates. . . the book is well documented with a rich flavour of local terms, and is a new path of research in the socio-economic history of southern India.”
-The Indian Economic and Social History Review
CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. 2. The Backdrop. . . Introduction; Irrigation Management and Paddy Technology; Resource Control and Economic Stratification; Some General Features of the Economy; Jati and Resource Control; Nattars and Jati Councils; King and Kaniyatchi; Moral Boundaries to Authority; The Universe of Kaniyatchi. 3. Early Rumblings. . . The Jagir under the Nawabs till 1776; Early Interactions: 1765-1780; The Aftermath of the War; The Poondamalli Episode. 4. The Thirumazhisai Episode. . . Place’s Perception of Kaniyatchi, Place and the Board of Revenue; Place and the Badernavis Levy; The Desertion of Parayar; Non-Cooperation and Desertion by Kaniyatchikarar; Reconciliation and Resettlement. 5. After Thirumazhisai. Political Society in Todaimandalam; Capitalism, Company ‘Circar’ and Dr. Smith; Kaniyatchi Parts with its Ghost. 6. Roots of the Revolt: Identity, Interest and Models. . . Identities and Interests; Rehearsal for Rebellion?; Structure, Communitas and Despotic States; Boundaries of Power and Authority: The Implications of Accountability. Appendix, Glossary of Tamil Words, Bibliography, Index.
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Education, Social Inequality and Social Change in Karnataka
By Chitra Sivakumar
Year:
1982
Pages:
146 (Hard Bound)
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200.00
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She went to Mysore and spent over a year with her sample with the aim of combining ethnographic insights with survey data. These insights make her study different from run-of-the mill studies of the sociology of education in India, and especially different from doctoral sociology to which this work also
belongs. Economic & Political Weekly.
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Culture and Community in Europe: Essays in Honor of Conrad M. Arensberg
By Owen M. Lynch
Year:
1987
Pages:
226 (Hard Bound)
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250.00
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It is a pleasure to find a reader about Europe still rooted in the discipline’s classical tradition of weaving together the intimate and the institutional, of showing how historical and regional processes permeate homely events. Following Arensberg, the authors show how “community” is no false segregation of single locale or set of people, “urban” is not a synonym for dense population in a paved city, and “peasants” are something other than agricultural workers. Instead, these essays focus on emergent processes in the past and present - on continual movement within social fields.
“. . . Lynch’s introduction is particularly valuable, for he synthesizes the contributions of these articles to anthropology in general. . . Perhaps the most important contribution these articles make is to interdisciplinary studies, especially to the growing “rapproachement between history and anthropology (p.7), which Arensberg and others initiated some 25 years ago.”
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