Land, labour and caste politics in rural Tamil Nadu in the 20th century: Iruvelpattu (1916-2008)

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 45, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 47-61

  Harriss, John ^a   Jeyaranjan, J ^b   Nagaraj, K ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Institute for Development Alternatives   (India)

^c Asian College of Journalism   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859239609     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Ananthpur, K and M Moore (2007): Ambiguous Institutions: Traditional Governance and Local Democracy in Rural India (Brighton: Institute of Development Studies) (Working Paper No 282).
2. Baker, C J (1975): The Politics of South India, 1020-1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
3. - (1984): An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955: The Tamilnad Countryside (Oxford: Clarendon Press).
4. Bernstein, H (2004): '"Changing Before Our Very Eyes': Agrarian Questions and the Politics of Land in Capitalism Today", Journal of Agrarian Change, 4,1 and 2, pp 190-225.
5. - (2010): "Rural Livelihood and Agrarian Change: Bringing Class Back in" in N Long, Y Jungzhong and W Yihu (ed.), Rural Transformations and Development (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).
6. Djurfeldt, Goran, Venkatesh Athreya, N Jayakumar, Staffan Lindberg, A Rajagopal and R Vidyasagar (2008): "Agrarian Change and Social Mobility in Tamil Nadu", Economic & Political Weekly, 43, 45, pp 50-61.
7. Guhan, S and J Mencher (1983): "Iruvelpattu Revisited", Economic & Political Weekly, 18, Nos 23 and 24.
8. Harriss, J (1982): Capitalism and Peasant Farming: Agrarian Structure and Ideology in Northern Tamil Nadu (Bombay: Oxford University Press).
9. Haswell, M (1967): Economics of Development in Village India (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul).
10. Kurien, C T (1980): "Dynamics of Rural Transformation: A Case Study of Tamil Nadu", Economic & Political Weekly, 15, Nos 5-7 (Annual Number), pp 365-90.
11. Manikumar, K A (2003): Colonial Economy in the Great Depression: Madras (1929-37) (Hyderabad: Orient Longman).
12. Slater, G (1918): Some South Indian Villages (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
13. Thomas, P J and K C Ramakrishnan (1940): Some South Indian Villages: A Resurvey (Madras: University of Madras) (Madras Economics Series No 4).
14. Tomlinson, B (1988): "The Historical Roots of Indian Poverty: Issues in the Economic and Social History of Modern South Asia", Modern Asian Studies, 22, pp 123-40.