Social Formations of Early South India
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2012
- 354p
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