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Crooked stalks : cultivating virtue in South India / Anand Pandian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pandian, Anand.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Moral and ethical aspects--India, South.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--India, South.
- Economic development--Moral and ethical aspects--India, South.
- Economic development.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Other Title:
- Cultivating virtue in South India
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.)
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613035844
- 9781283035842
- 1283035847
- 9780822391012
- 0822391015
- OCLC:
- 550539400
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