Social formations of early South India

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Social formations of early South India

Rajan Gurukkal

Oxford University Press, 2010

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Summary: With reference to Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents of Works

  • section 1. Historiography and method
  • section 2. Early social formations
  • section 3. Social transformations
  • section 4. The new social formation

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Description

This book examines the socio-economic and political processes in south India from ancient to early medieval period. It covers various aspects of social formations in south India-economy, technology, social relations, institutions, agrarian structure, political processes, state, writing, and so on. The collection is broadly organized into four parts viz., the methodological perspectives, pre-historic formations, agro-pastoral social formation, and agrarian social formation. The author also discusses problems related to the pre-historic and early historical periods and explores the factors that led to the end of the early historical and the beginning of early medieval period in south Indian history. This book will be of considerable interest to scholars, teachers, and students of ancient and early medieval history, archaeology, anthropology, and sociology particularly those concerned with south India.

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. Early Social Formations: A Historiographic Review
  • 2. Semiotics of Ancient Tamil Poetics: A Historiographic Consideration
  • 3. Forms of Production and Forces of Change in Ancient Tamil Society
  • 4. Early Iron Age Economy: Problems of Agrarian Expansion in Tamilakam
  • 5. From Clan and Lineage to Hereditary Occupations and Caste in the Tamil Macro Region
  • 6. Towards a New Discourse: Discursive Processes in Early South India
  • 7. Tribes, Forest, and Social Formation in Early South India
  • 8. Writing, Literacy and Social Formations in the Tamil South
  • 9. Spread of Writing in the Tamil South and its Social Implications
  • 10. Transition of Social Formation from Ancient to Early Medieval in the Tamil South
  • 11. Historical Antecedents of the State Formation in the Deep South
  • 12. Aspects of the Reservoir System of Irrigation in the Pandya Country
  • 13. Pre-historic Life in Southern Western Ghats: Interpreting Rock-art
  • 14. Aspects of Great Transformation in Ancient Kerala
  • 15. The Formation of Caste Society in Kerala: Historical Antecedents
  • 16. Temples as Sites of Social and Religious Interaction
  • 17. The Course of Social Historiography of Kerala
  • Index

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