Rural Society in Southeast India

Kathleen Gough

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Kathleen Gough, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2009
Print publication year:: 1982
Online ISBN:: 9780511557606
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557606

Subjects:: Law: General Interest, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Law, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (38)

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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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-xiv

Part I - Thanjāvūr

1 - The District
pp 1-16

2 - Castes and Religious Groups
pp 17-34

3 - The Agriculturalists
pp 35-55

4 - The Nonagriculturalists
pp 56-66

5 - Variations in Ecology, Demography, and Social Structure
pp 67-104

6 - The Colonial Background and the Sources of Poverty
pp 105-137

7 - Political Parties
pp 138-150

Part II - Kumbapeṭṭai

8 - The Face of the Village
pp 151-173

9 - Kumbapeṭṭai before 1855
pp 174-192

10 - Kumbapeṭṭai from 1855 to 1952
pp 193-212

11 - The Annual Round
pp 213-234

12 - Economics and Class Structure: The Petty Bourgeoisie
pp 235-252

13 - Independent Commodity Producers and Traders
pp 253-259

14 - The Semiproletariat
pp 260-288

15 - Village Politics: Religion, Caste, and Class
pp 289-303

16 - Village Politics: The Street Assembly
pp 304-317

17 - Class Struggle and Village Power Structure
pp 318-338

Part III - Kirippūr

18 - East Thanjāvūr
pp 339-352

19 - The Village
pp 353-366

20 - Economy and Class Structure
pp 367-388

21 - Village Politics: The Caste Hindūs
pp 389-395

22 - The Communist Movement
pp 396-406

23 - Conclusion
pp 407-420

Notes
pp 421-432

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