UID:
almafu_9959236070302883
Format:
1 online resource (336 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-84964-102-1
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0-585-42608-2
Series Statement:
Anthropology, culture, and society
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Notes -- 2. Working for Progress -- Notes -- 3. Marriage and Mobility -- Notes -- 4. Consumption: Promises of Escape -- Notes -- 5. Religion as a Tool for Mobility -- Notes -- 6. Mobility and Power -- Notes -- 7. Micropolitics, or the Political in the Personal -- Notes -- 8. Conclusions -- Notes -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- adukkulla kanan 100 -- Advaita Asram, Alwaye 156 -- agni homams 168 -- agricultural labour/labourers -- 35 -- 57 -- 67 -- 70-2 -- and mechanisation 72 -- head-load work 214 -- political agitation 200 -- union agreements 72 -- Agricultural Labourers' Union -- 200 -- 212 -- agriculture, and prestige 73 -- Aiya, N. 66 -- Aiyappan of Sabarimala 182 -- Aiyappan, A. -- 8-9 -- 29 -- 66 -- 89 -- 95 -- 216 -- Aiyappan, K. 'Sahodaran' -- 198-9 -- 225 -- 226 -- Alaphuza -- 50 -- 65 -- 198 -- All Kerala Fraternity Conference [1921] 87 -- All-Travancore Joint Political Congress [JPC] -- 194 -- 195 -- Alummoottil family -- 52 -- 85 -- 175 -- 193 -- and marriages 53 -- and marriages 53 -- and marriages 82 -- and marriages 82 -- and marriages 87 -- and marriages 87 -- and marriages 96 -- and marriages 96 -- European influence 53 -- European influence 87 -- European influence 136 -- Amani system 51 -- Ambedkar, Dr -- 225 -- 226 -- 245 -- 250 -- Amma, Tenganoor -- 169 -- 172-3 -- 174 -- Anglican Church 157-8 -- anpoli -- 176-7 -- 187 -- anti-Brahman movements 192 -- anti-discrimination legislation 29 -- anugreham -- 154 -- 167 -- Appadurai, A. 125 -- apprenticeships 77 -- Arabs -- 7 -- 116 -- arrack [palm wine] -- 14 -- 51 -- 67 -- Aruvippuram -- 156 -- 157 -- 193 -- Arya Samaj 156 -- Asan, Kumaran -- 140 -- 193 -- 194 -- 195 -- 199 -- Asari, Thankappan 232 -- asrams -- 158-60 -- 171-2 -- 186.
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astrology -- 99 -- 113 -- 173-4 -- 208 -- atheism -- 155 -- 163 -- 199 -- avagashangal -- 184 -- 186 -- avarna groups -- 16 -- 29 -- 142 -- 218 -- and education 141 -- and education 142 -- caste associations 196 -- Ayodhya incidents -- 218 -- 242 -- Ayurvedic medicine -- 27 -- 59 -- 144-5 -- 172 -- 173 -- Backward Classes Liberation Front 217 -- Baker, H. 50 -- Baker, Laurie 149 -- banana trees -- 30 -- 31 -- Bangaladesh 123 -- Barnard, H. 13 -- Barnes, R.F. 254 -- Bauman, Z. 257 -- Berreman, G.D. 89 -- Beteille, A. -- 250 -- 260 -- Bhadrakali -- 158 -- 170 -- 172 -- 178 -- 183 -- 184 -- Bhadrakali temples -- 168 -- 175 -- festivals 32 -- festivals 32 -- festivals 160 -- festivals 160 -- Bhagavati 202 -- Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] -- 167 -- 198 -- 219 -- Bhramarakshassu 178 -- Bhuvaneswari -- 178 -- 184 -- bidi-workers 198 -- big-men -- 203 -- 251 -- and political parties 206-8 -- Bihar 217 -- birth rates 145 -- blade -- 48 -- 108 -- 133 -- Block Development Office 23 -- blood sacrifices -- 159 -- 170 -- 187 -- kozhivettu 178 -- Bombay riots 242 -- Bombay [Ratnam] 121 -- Bourdieu, Pierre -- 67 -- 193 -- 242 -- 245 -- 252 -- and power 37 -- and power 216 -- and rational choice 84-5 -- capital conversion 40 -- caste and class 11 -- fact and value 254 -- habitus 222 -- looking at fields 13 -- marriage strategies 91 -- marriage strategies 96 -- Brahmans -- 27 -- 33 -- 46 -- 154 -- 179 -- 224 -- and astrology 173 -- and caste status 254 -- and consumption 125 -- and education 141 -- and education 143 -- and employment 48 -- and employment 118 -- and gold 134 -- and Kottakara Durga temple 185-6 -- and rebirth 232 -- and sambhandam unions 83 -- dominance of 192 -- houses 24 -- houses 30 -- land ownership 2 -- land ownership 54-5 -- poor 40 -- practices appropriated 174 -- weddings 102 -- Brahmaswam 2.
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breast-cloths 157 -- British East India Company 49 -- British Political Residents -- 49 -- 192 -- British rule, and social change 195 -- Brotherhood Movement -- 199 -- 225 -- Calcutta 76 -- Caldwell, S. 50 -- capital accumulation -- 39 -- 124 -- and migration 75-6 -- and status 58-9 -- and status 64 -- and status 80 -- capital conversion -- 10 -- 36-7 -- 80 -- 118 -- 151 -- 248 -- and religion 153 -- and religion 153 -- and religion 154-5 -- and religion 154-5 -- and religion 167 -- and religion 167 -- and religion 168 -- and religion 168 -- and religion 170 -- and religion 170 -- capitalism -- 10 -- 152 -- 260 -- Caplan, L. 97 -- car ownership 2 -- cash crops 23 -- cash, preoccupation with 132-5 -- cashew production 2 -- caste associations -- 83 -- 193-4 -- 196 -- 234 -- 251 -- caste identity -- 10 -- 67 -- 148 -- and political allegiance 219 -- internal fragmentation 218-19 -- strength of 250-1 -- caste violence -- 222-3 -- 250 -- caste/caste system -- 13-14 -- 253-4 -- abolition of 8 -- abolition of 15 -- abolition of 16 -- abolition of 225 -- and biological species 224-5 -- and class 11 -- and class 11 -- and class 196-7 -- and class 196-7 -- and class 199 -- and class 199 -- and class 212 -- and class 212 -- and class 225 -- and class 225 -- casual labourers -- 40 -- 57 -- 71 -- 251 -- catholicism 167 -- centralisation -- of commerce 194 -- of power 191 -- of power 191 -- of power 192 -- of power 192 -- Ceru Mannattu family 1-3 -- Ceylon 3 -- Chakrabarty, D. -- 256 -- 258 -- chance -- 58 -- 133 -- 168 -- 169 -- 172 -- Channar, Koccu Kunja -- 52 -- 85 -- Channar, Kuttakkakaran Sekharan -- 52 -- 86 -- 116 -- Channars 64 -- Chantakara -- 23 -- 25 -- 27 -- 129 -- 146 -- chapels -- 24 -- and consumption 118 -- and discipline 163 -- and education 140 -- and military service 76 -- and Nayars 200.
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and Nayars 244 -- and Nayars 249 -- and social mobility 39-40 -- and social mobility 50 -- and wealth 39 -- and wealth 57 -- and wealth 244 -- and weddings 104 -- and weddings 105 -- and weddings 106 -- and working women 44 -- and working women 44 -- and working women 45 -- and working women 45 -- employment 55 -- employment 57 -- employment 58 -- entrepreneurship 53 -- entrepreneurship 130-1 -- housing 146 -- land ownership 53 -- land ownership 54-5 -- marriage with 87 -- migration 57 -- migration 76 -- migration 78-9 -- charismatic religious meetings 167 -- Chattampi Swamikal -- 84 -- 156 -- Chattan -- 155 -- 178 -- Chatterjee, P. 258 -- Chegavar, Aromal 75 -- Chennai 76 -- Chennai Medical College 66 -- Chettabhagavati/Jyestha 202 -- childbirth 145 -- childlessness 34-5 -- children -- and health care 145 -- and long-term investment 145-6 -- and long-term investment 145-6 -- and long-term investment 152 -- and long-term investment 152 -- and long-term investment 248 -- and long-term investment 248 -- Chovans 189 -- Christianity, mass conversion to -- 157-8 -- 233 -- Christians -- 22 -- 33 -- 167-8 -- 249 -- and caste pollution 222 -- and caste pollution 222 -- and caste pollution 231 -- and caste pollution 231 -- baptism 233 -- Bible 243 -- city, moving to -- 3-5 -- 6 -- 15 -- Civic Rights League 211 -- class -- 10 -- 14 -- 34 -- and race 11 -- and race 238 -- and race 256 -- and sex 11 -- solidarity 212 -- Cochin -- 16 -- 50 -- coconut production -- 53 -- 54-5 -- 66 -- European traders 50-1 -- products 14 -- products 14 -- products 50 -- products 50 -- coconut trees -- 30 -- 31 -- 50 -- 234-5 -- coffee production 49 -- coir industry -- 50 -- 198 -- 199 -- colonial construction -- 13 -- and dress 222-3 -- and dress 238 -- and ethnicity 10 -- and family 253 -- and hierarchy 220-1.
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and Hindu violence 222-3 -- and housing 30 -- and labour relations 39 -- and religious practices 155-7 -- and social interaction 220-1 -- and status 40 -- and status 153 -- and status 210 -- and urban elites 250 -- enforcing privileges 241 -- essentialism 231-6 -- essentialism 255 -- inter-dining 199 -- inter-dining 229-30 -- inter-dining 231 -- inter-dining 241 -- inter-dining 253 -- pollution 221-2 -- pollution 223 -- racially defined 234 -- solidarity 241 -- stereotyping 38 -- stereotyping 66-7 -- sub-castes 82 -- sub-castes 95 -- three main blocs of 29 -- three main blocs of 254 -- colonial economy -- 14 -- and modernity 260 -- and Travancore economy 48-51 -- and western capitalism 260 -- expansion of capitalist production 15 -- expansion of capitalist production 135-6 -- Communist Farmers' Association 213 -- Communist Farmers' Union 214 -- Communist government 64 -- communist parties -- 33 -- modernism 199 -- splits 213 -- Communist Party of India [Marxist][CPI[M]] -- 24 -- 197 -- 207 -- 210 -- 213 -- Communist Workers' Union 214 -- Congress Party -- 198 -- 211 -- 218 -- 219 -- 241 -- 249 -- consumer durables -- 117 -- 135-9 -- consumption -- 36 -- and brand names 127 -- and brand names 129 -- and brand names 136 -- and capital conversion 118 -- and capital conversion 151 -- and consumer durables 117 -- and consumer durables 135-9 -- and exclusion 118-19 -- and foreign goods 127-8 -- and foreign goods 129-30 -- and foreign goods 135 -- and foreign goods 136 -- and foreign goods 138 -- and jealousy 139 -- and jealousy 169 -- and jealousy 174 -- and loans 138 -- and modernity 127 -- and non-migrants 137 -- and poor 119-22 -- and prestige 118 -- and prestige 123 -- and prestige 124-5 -- and prestige 126 -- and prestige 127-8 -- and social identity 118-19 -- and social mobility 117-53.
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and social mobility 248.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7453-1693-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7453-1694-8
Language:
English
