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Crooked stalks : cultivating virtue in South India /

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.).

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pandian, Anand
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.