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Author Pandian, Anand.

Title Crooked stalks : cultivating virtue in South India / Anand Pandian
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents "A rough spade for a rugged landscape" : on savage selves and more civil places -- "What remains of the harvest when the fence grazes the crop?" : on the proper violence of agrarian citizenship -- "The life of the thief leaves the belly always boiling" : on the nature and restraint of the criminal animal -- "Millets sown yield millets, evil sown yields evil" : on the moral returns of agrarian toil -- "Let the water for the paddy also irrigate the grass" : on the sympathies of an aqueous self
Summary A study of the Piramalai Kallars (Kallans) a South Indian caste, widely viewed as thieves. (The ethnonym means "thief" in Tamil, and the British government designated them a "criminal tribe" in 1918.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Agriculture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India, South
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India, South
Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India, South
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Agriculture & Food.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Agriculture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects
Landleben
Ethik
Modernisierung
SUBJECT India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Subject India
South India
Indien -- Süd
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822391012
0822391015
9786613035844
661303584X
Other Titles Cultivating virtue in South India