The Nadars of Tamilnad : The Political Culture of a Community in Change /

The Nadars of Tamilnad : The Political Culture of a Community in Change /

Among the various communities of South India, the Nadars have perhaps most clearly evidenced the impact of change over the past 200 years. Considered by high-caste Hindus in the early nineteenth century to be of extremely low status, the Nadars-toddy-tappers, climbers of the palmyra palm-suffered se...

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Main Author: Hardgrave, Robert L. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2024.

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Nadars.
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Call Number: DS485.M277

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction: Caste in India /
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  • The Nadars: Their Condition and Traditional Status /
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  • Christianity and Change /
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  • Mythology and Aspiration of a Changing Caste /
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  • The Six Town Nadars: Sanskritization and Confrontation /
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  • Association for Uplift: The Nadar Mahajana Sangam /
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  • Politics and the Sangam /
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  • Structural Change and Political Behavior /
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  • Political Sentiment: Five Nadars /
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  • The Nadars: An Over View /
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  • Population of the Southern Districts /
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  • The Myth of Nadar Origin /
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  • Chronology of Nadar Caste Histories /
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  • Glossary /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
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