Social Formations of Early South India
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 18 October 2012
- ISBN 9780198089391
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 218x143x21 mm
- Weight 364 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the economy, technology, and the process of state formation to understand the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation.
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This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation by exploring areas like economy, technology, and historical processes of state formation. The volume specially focuses on the transition from clan and lineage to hereditary occupations of caste, and the social implications of the spread of writing. It also discusses the structural and institutional features of the new social formation. The Introduction provides a conceptual backdrop to the term 'social formation' and reviews the major debates surrounding social change in south India.
This book will be of considerable interest to students, scholars, and teachers of ancient and medieval history, archaeology, and sociology, particularly those concerned with south India.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Conceptual Preliminaries
Section I: Historiography and Method
Early Social Formations: A Historiographic Review
The Course of Social Historiography of Kerala
Semiotics of Ancient Tamil Poetics: A Methodological Consideration
Section II: Early Social Formations
Prehistoric Life in the Southern Western Ghats: Interpreting Rock-art
Tribes, Forest, and Social Formation in Early South India
Forms of Production and Forces of Change in Ancient Tamil Society
Early Iron Age Economy: Problems of Agrarian Expansion in Tamilakam
Writing, Literacy, and Social Formations in the Tamil South
Towards a New Discourse: Discursive Processes in Early South India
Section III: Social Transformations
Social Formation from the Ancient to Early Medieval
Historical Antecedents of the State Formation in the Deep South
Aspects of Great Transformation in Ancient Kerala
From Clan and Lineage to Hereditary Occupations and Caste
Spread of Writing in the Tamil South and Its Social Implications
Section IV: The New Social Formation
Temples as Sites of the New Social Formation
The Formation of Caste Society in Kerala: Historical Antecedents
Aspects of the Reservoir System of Irrigation in the P?n?ya Country
Index
