The paper examines Third World mortality experience in order to identify the ways to which
poor countries can achieve low mortality without having to await prior economic growth. A …

This work, first published in 1980, breaks new ground as concerns caste in India. It first
examines the nature of caste and its relation to Hinduism and questions in what sense it is …

As India attempts to modernize and ready itself for the twenty-first century, the issue of caste
takes on an overwhelming importance. What form does caste take today? How can its …

The Christians of Kerala are divided into Syrian, Latin and New Christian groupings, which
may be regarded as castes-ranked with respect to each other and surrounding Hindu …

Forest Traders; A Socio-Economic Study of the Hill Pandaram Page 1 FOREST TRADERS Page
2 London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology Managing Editor: Charles …

AN EXTREME, yet popular view of the princely states suggests that they were sloughs of
decadence and inertia, their people enduring unrelieved miseries, their rulers pursuing …

On her arrival in Travancore in 1819 Mrs Mault, as wife of the new missionary, immediately
set about establishing a school for convert girls and a 'lace industry'to employ convert …

The situation for women in the'untouchable'caste in Kerala, southern India is discussed. The
caste system has legally been abolished, although the'outcaste'group continues. The …

This discussion of change and continuity in the lives of Namputiri Brahman caste members
draws on day-to-day and season-to-season accounts of behavior and religious roles in …

Modern Kerala presents us with a paradox: the state, best known to the outside world for its
association with communism, is also where communalism has, arguably, found its most …