Social Formations of Early South India

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Historiographyand method
Early social Formations ...23
The course of social historiography of Kerala ..........59
Semiotics of ancient tamil poetics ......77
2. Early social Formations
prehistoric life in the southern western ghats ..........95
Tribes, forest and social formation in the early south india ......................121
Forms of production and forces of Change in Ancienty tamil Society .........136
early Iron age Economy.......155
Writing literacy and social Formations in the Tamil South ...........166
Towards a new discourse .............182
3. Social Transformations
Social Formation from the Ancient to early Medival .....205
Historical Antecedents of the State formation in the deep south ............224
Aspects of Great transformation in Ancient kerala ..............242
From clan and lineage to hereditary occupations and Case ................255
Spread of writing in the tamil south and its social Implications .......272
5. The new social Formation
Temples as sites of the New social Formation ...........291
THe formation of caste society in kerala ......306
Aspects of the reservation system of Irrigation in the pandya country ...........340