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.).
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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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.