Anand Pandian

Crooked Stalks

Cultivating Virtue in South India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography on the meaning of virtue amongst the Kallar people of rural southern India, who were considered to be a criminal caste by the British colonizers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345145
• ISBN-10: 0822345145
• Artikelnr.: 26499424

Autorenporträt

Anand Pandian

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Transliteration xv
Introduction 1
1. "A Rough Spade for a Rugged Landscape": On Savage Selves and More Civil
Places 31
2. "What Remains of the Harvest When the Fence Grazes the Grop?": On the
Proper Violence of Agrarian Citizenship 65
3. "The Life of the Thief Leaves the Belly Always Boiling": On the Nature
and Restraint of the Criminal Animal 101
4. "Millets Sown Yield Millets, Evil Sown Yields Evil": On the Moral
Returns of Agrarian Toil 141
5. "Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass": On the Sympathies
of an Aqueous Self 181
Epilogue 221
Notes 241
Glossary 283
Bibliography 289
Index 309