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Rural society in southeast India / Kathleen Gough

Gough, Kathleen,i1925-1990 [Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1981

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 458 pages)

Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 38

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978-0-511-55760-6 ; 978-0-521-23889-2 ; 978-0-521-05938-1

MS 9750

 

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This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanjāvūr district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951–3. Differing from the usual village study, Gough's work traces the history of the villages over the past century and examines the impact of colonialism on the district since 1770. The volume's theoretical significance lies in its attempt to define more clearly the characteristics of rural class relations, particularly addressing the question whether Indian agrarian relations are still precapitalist. This study not only provides a vivid account of village life in southeast India in the 1950s (to be followed by a later study done in the 1970s), but also contributes to theory concerning modes of production, class structures in the Third World, and underdevelopment.