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Social stratification --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- India --- Input-output tables --- Terms of trade --- Social classes --- Economic conditions --- Input-output tables - India --- Terms of trade - India --- Social classes - India --- India - Economic conditions - 1947 --- -Input-output tables

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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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Ce volume est centré sur la transformation des basses castes et de la société tribale en Asie du Sud. Le processus est examiné dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, avec l'apport d’historiens, d’anthropologues et de spécialistes du politique, afin de mettre en lumière les changements sociaux qui prennent place parmi les groupes « laissés pour compte » ou même ignorés des décennies durant par la sociologie traditionnelle, généralement moins intéressée par les groupes sociaux périphériques que par la grande Tradition du monde indien. Sans négliger cette dernière, il est grand temps d’étudier la « culture populaire » pour elle-même et non comme dérivant de celle des élites. D’autant que les basses castes et les tribaux s’émancipent de la logique de la sanskritisation et gagnent leur identité propre. Ces contributions tentent d’éclairer les questions de résistance et d’autonomisation des groupes « subalternes » sur la longue durée, — dès lors que ce processus n’est pas réellement nouveau, même s’il a peut-être atteint récemment un tournant avec la remise en cause croissante de l’organisation hiérarchique de la société indienne. Jusqu’à quel point pouvons-nous définir une sphère autonome d’action et de pensée subalterne hors du champ d’influence de la classe dominante ? Cette sphère autonome produit-elle une résistance quotidienne défiant la vision hiérarchique de la société des castes ?

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The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity's remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India. Starting in the seventeenth century, when the religion was integrated into Tamil institutions of caste and popular religiosity, this study moves into the twentieth century, when Christianity became an unexpected source of radical transformation for the country's 'untouchables' (dalits). Mosse shows how caste was central to the way in which categories of 'religion' and 'culture' were formed and negotiated in missionary encounters, and how the social and semiotic possibilities of Christianity lead to a new politic of equal rights in South India. Skillfully combining archival research with anthropological fieldwork, this book examines the full cultural impact of Christianity on Indian religious, social and political life. Connecting historical ethnography to the preoccupations of priests and Jesuit social activists, Mosse throws new light on the contemporary nature of caste, conversion, religious synthesis, secularization, dalit politics, the inherent tensions of religious pluralism, and the struggle for recognition among subordinated people.

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