Caste, public action, and the Kerala model / KT Rammohan -- "Community" as de-imagining nation : relocating Narayana Guru and Ezhava movement in Kerala / J. Reghu -- Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism : Travails in the making of a community / M.M.Khan -- Freedom, economic reform, and...

chapter 1 Peripheral labour: Theoretical premises -- chapter 2 Periphery in the making -- chapter 3 Structure, dynamics and the hegemony of European capital -- chapter 4 Plantation worker-families: Sources, social origins and gender divisions -- chapter 5 Slaves reborn? The...

A comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it sheds light on the paradoxes of the Indian state and critiques its model of economic development