This paper looks systematically at the various factors that can account for the disappearance
or the transformation of the institution of patronage that used to structure labor and other …

The Kerala model of development, characterised by high levels of social development at
relatively low levels of economic growth, has been the result of radical redistributive policies …

In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and
often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the …

Reforms in India is a sincere attempt to study the problems and prospects of communist
parties in power in India at regional level (such as in the States of Kerela and West Bengal) …

Coffee is one of the important plantation crops of India, which is cultivated mainly in the hill
tracts of South India especially in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. The other important …

I am greatly honoured by the invitation of the organisers of this International Conference of
Kerala Studies to preside over the subject section on Economics and to give its Presidential …

In this paper, an attempt is made to assess the performance, achievements and challenges
of the state economy, using secondary data for the period 1960-61 to 2020-21 …

Nothing more vividly illustrates the transformation of Kerala in the twentieth century than the
way people use their hands. In the old Kerala that began to dissolve rapidly in the 1920s, a …

Why do some pro-poor democracies in global South enact generous and universal social
policies accompanied by empowering outcomes while others, similar in many ways, do not …

Conducting accurate and meaningful surveys is one of the most important facets of market
research in the consumer driven 21st century. Businesses, governments and media spend …