Rural Society in Southeast India

A comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanj v r district of southeast India based on fieldwork in 1951-3.

Autorentext
Kathleen M. Gough is Associate Professor of English and an affiliated faculty member in the Theatre and Dance program at the University of Vermont, US. She was previously Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at UVM (2014-22), US and a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow (2006-2014), UK. Gough is the author of Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic (2013) and the recipient of the 2014 Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). She also received the 2017 Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize from ASTR and the Oscar G. Brockett Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas-Austin for "The Art of the Loop: Analogy, Aurality, History, Performance" (TDR 2016).

Klappentext
A comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanj??v??r district of southeast India based on fieldwork in 1951???3.

Inhalt
Preface; Part I. Thanj v r: 1. The district; 2. Castes and religious groups; 3. The agriculturalists; 4. The nonagriculturalists; 5. Variations in ecology, demography and social structure; 6. The colonial background and the sources of poverty; 7. Political parties; Part II. Kumbapettai: 8. The face of the village; 9. Kumbapettai before 1855; 10. Kumbapettai from 1855 to 1952; 11. The annual round; 12. Economics and class structure: the petty bourgeoisie; 13. Independent commodity producers and traders; 14. The semiproletariat; 15. Village politics: religion, caste and class; 16. Village politics: the street assembly; 17. Class struggle and village power structure; Part III. Kiripp r: 18. East Thanj v r; 19. The village; 20. Economy and class structure; 21. Village politics: the caste Hind s; 22. The Communist movement; 23. Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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