TY - BOOK AU - Gallo, Ester AU - Gallo,Ester TI - The Fall of Gods: Memory, Kinship, and Middle Classes in South India U1 - R73.3 PY - 2017/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Introduction: Kinship, Memory and Indian Middle classes .....1 1. Some moments in history .....30 2. From gods to human beings; Mapping generational histories .....59 3. Debts of identity: on written memories and middle-classness ....94 4. The illam and its dispersion .....127 5. Recalling the beauty of impurity .....167 6. Family histories, reproduction, and migration .....209 7. On irony, Brahminism and intergeneration ...242 Conclusion: The thin elephant in a crowed shed ....272 ER -