Prior to its formation in 1956, the State of Kerala was divided into three regions: Malabar in the north, Cochin in the center, and Travancore in the south. These regions presented different types of land tenures and tenant conditions were worse in Malabar, which pertained to the British Empire, than in Cochin and Travancore. When Kerala became a State, most of the land was in the hands of a select few and tenants were frequently evicted. The Kerala Agrarian Relations Bill, piloted by the first communist ministry, sought to prevent this concentration and redistribute land to landless farmers. This legislation disproportionately affected Kerala’s major land-owning community of Nairs, and Mannath Padmanabhan, the leader of the Nair Se...
Kerala society was not based on the principles of social freedom and equality. Its chief characteris...
Kerala, a state in southwestern India, has implemented radical reform as a development strategy. As ...
Landless Adivasis (officially categorised as Scheduled Tribes) of the southern Indian province of Ke...
In 1957, the State of Kerala, the southernmost of the Indian States in the Indian Union, made world ...
In any agrarian society, such as India, there is a strong linkage between land and societal status. ...
The main aim of the present thesis is to dig deep into the once existed tenurial conditions and legi...
The Communist Party of India came into power in Kerala in 1957 during one of the tensest periods of ...
The Agrarian Policy of Indian Communism and the Debate on Reformism : The Case of West Bengal. — In ...
After independence, the Government of India took some reform measures for the eradication of social ...
Preprint of a chapter to be published in: Territory, Soil and Society in South Asia, dir. Daniela Be...
Pascale Chaput The Cross-Cutting Allegiances of a Malayali Rubber-Tapper : Monograph of a Hevea Pl...
Until Independence, then, and well after that in Tamil Nadu, intermediaries and owners were bound to...
This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from...
Perhaps the most characteristic feature of our timesis that economic development has become the goal...
Dumont Louis. Dharma Kumar, Land and Caste in South India, Agricultural Labour in Madras Presidency ...
Kerala society was not based on the principles of social freedom and equality. Its chief characteris...
Kerala, a state in southwestern India, has implemented radical reform as a development strategy. As ...
Landless Adivasis (officially categorised as Scheduled Tribes) of the southern Indian province of Ke...
In 1957, the State of Kerala, the southernmost of the Indian States in the Indian Union, made world ...
In any agrarian society, such as India, there is a strong linkage between land and societal status. ...
The main aim of the present thesis is to dig deep into the once existed tenurial conditions and legi...
The Communist Party of India came into power in Kerala in 1957 during one of the tensest periods of ...
The Agrarian Policy of Indian Communism and the Debate on Reformism : The Case of West Bengal. — In ...
After independence, the Government of India took some reform measures for the eradication of social ...
Preprint of a chapter to be published in: Territory, Soil and Society in South Asia, dir. Daniela Be...
Pascale Chaput The Cross-Cutting Allegiances of a Malayali Rubber-Tapper : Monograph of a Hevea Pl...
Until Independence, then, and well after that in Tamil Nadu, intermediaries and owners were bound to...
This paper seeks to map out the historical trajectory leading to a series of migrations in and from...
Perhaps the most characteristic feature of our timesis that economic development has become the goal...
Dumont Louis. Dharma Kumar, Land and Caste in South India, Agricultural Labour in Madras Presidency ...
Kerala society was not based on the principles of social freedom and equality. Its chief characteris...
Kerala, a state in southwestern India, has implemented radical reform as a development strategy. As ...
Landless Adivasis (officially categorised as Scheduled Tribes) of the southern Indian province of Ke...