Social Formations of Early South India Rajan Gurukkal English

By:

Gurukkal Rajan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2021Description: viii-354 p. soft bound 14*21.8 cmISBN:

0-19-808939-2

DDC classification:

23 303.09548 GUR

Contents:

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Conceptual Preliminaries Section I: Historiography and Method 1. Early Social Formations: A Historiographic Review 2. The Course of Social Historiography of Kerala 3. Semiotics of Ancient Tamil Poetics: A Methodological Consideration Section II: Early Social Formations 4. Prehistoric Life in the Southern Western Ghats: Interpreting Rock-art 5. Tribes, Forest, and Social Formation in Early South India 6. Forms of Production and Forces of Change in Ancient Tamil Society 7. Early Iron Age Economy: Problems of Agrarian Expansion in Tamilakam 8. Writing, Literacy, and Social Formations in the Tamil South 9. Towards a New Discourse: Discursive Processes in Early South India Section III: Social Transformations 10. Social Formation from the Ancient to Early Medieval 11. Historical Antecedents of the State Formation in the Deep South 12. Aspects of Great Transformation in Ancient Kerala 13. From Clan and Lineage to Hereditary Occupations and Caste 14. Spread of Writing in the Tamil South and Its Social Implications Section IV: The New Social Formation 15. Temples as Sites of the New Social Formation 16. The Formation of Caste Society in Kerala: Historical Antecedents 17. Aspects of the Reservoir System of Irrigation in the P?n?ya Country Index

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tetso College Library Sociology	Non-fiction	303.09548 GUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		11136

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Conceptual Preliminaries
Section I: Historiography and Method
1. Early Social Formations: A Historiographic Review
2. The Course of Social Historiography of Kerala
3. Semiotics of Ancient Tamil Poetics: A Methodological Consideration
Section II: Early Social Formations
4. Prehistoric Life in the Southern Western Ghats: Interpreting Rock-art
5. Tribes, Forest, and Social Formation in Early South India
6. Forms of Production and Forces of Change in Ancient Tamil Society
7. Early Iron Age Economy: Problems of Agrarian Expansion in Tamilakam
8. Writing, Literacy, and Social Formations in the Tamil South
9. Towards a New Discourse: Discursive Processes in Early South India
Section III: Social Transformations
10. Social Formation from the Ancient to Early Medieval
11. Historical Antecedents of the State Formation in the Deep South
12. Aspects of Great Transformation in Ancient Kerala
13. From Clan and Lineage to Hereditary Occupations and Caste
14. Spread of Writing in the Tamil South and Its Social Implications
Section IV: The New Social Formation
15. Temples as Sites of the New Social Formation
16. The Formation of Caste Society in Kerala: Historical Antecedents
17. Aspects of the Reservoir System of Irrigation in the P?n?ya Country
Index

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