In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India's lowest infant mortality, longest life
expectancy and highest female literacy. India's' problem state'of the 1950s has become'the …

Annotation This book melds rich ethnography with an understanding of recent history to
understand the issues surrounding upward social mobility, modernity and changing …

Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies
while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question …

Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why
Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that …

The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language,
geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in …

This paper assesses and produces evidence in support of the hypothesis that an important
factor that contributed to the easier accessibility to and better utilisation of health facilities in …

Kerala's famed matrilineal system disintegrated in the twentieth century, and the lastlegal
vestiges were abolished in 1976. This essay discovers that legacies of matrilinyendured in …

Kerala's 2018 floods and landslides offer great lessons on risk governance and climate
policies. The challenges in each phase of rescue, relief and rebuilding were addressed in …

This article attempts to explain how the parliamentary left interacted with the social terrain of
Kerala, which has a strong presence of organized social pressure groups. Kerala has a …

Imperialism may be over, but the political, economic and cultural subjugation of social life
through English has only intensified. This book demonstrates how English has been newly …