...M. S. A. Rao Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1967 1967 Land Reclamation in Kerala . By V. R. Pillai and P. G. K. Panikar . New York : Asia Publishing Company , 1965 . x, 197 pp. Tables, Diagrams, Index. $10.50. 740 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (iii-iv...

...Lucinda Ramberg Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala . By Navaneetha Mokkil . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2019 . 288 pp. ISBN: 9780295745572 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2022 2022 How does...

...René Véron Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People's Campaign for Decentralized Planning . By T. M. Thomas Isaac and Richard W. Franke . Lanham, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield , 2002 . xvi , 241 pp. $74.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian...

...Moazzem Hossain Kerala: The Development Experience: Reflections on Sustainability and Replicability . Edited By Govindan Parayil . London and New York : Zed Books , 2000 . x, 274 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002...

...Nisha Kommattam The Enigma of the Kerala Woman . Edited by Swapna Mukhopadhyay . New Delhi : Social Science Press , 2007 . xii , 189 pp. $70.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 The second part of the book consists of seven case...

... the applicability of their ideas to Kerala, India's most newspaper-consuming state, over the past 200 years. The essay suggests that by conceptualizing print and newspaper development in three stages, we arrive at a more accurate understanding of the impact of print consumption on societies and their politics...

...Prema-chandra Athukorala Kerala's Gulf Connection: CDS Studies on International Labour Migration from Kerala State in India . Edited by K. C. Zachariah , K. P. Kannan , and S. Irudaya Rajan . Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala : Centre for Development Studies , 2002 . 244 pp. Rs 250/$25.00...

... multivariate analysis across states and comparative case studies of three southern states (Goa, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu) to identify the factors associated with successful fertility transitions in India. Although the experience of each state has its distinct features, Srinivasan concludes that one or more...

...Michael F. Maniates Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State . By Richard W. Franke and Barbara H. Chasin . Food First Development Report, No. 6. San Francisco, Calif. : The Institute For Food and Development Policy , 1989 . 122 pp. $6.00 (plus $2.00 postage...

...Stephen F. Dale Abstract During the nineteenth and the early twentieth century, a series of violent outbreaks erupted in the rural areas of Malabar District in northern Kerala. The outbreaks were conducted by small groups of Mappillas, the indigenous Muslims of Kerala. At the time they occurred...

...Robin Jeffrey Abstract Why has communism flourished in some parts of Asia and not in others? Examining the case of Kerala, this paper argues that, in India at least, social dislocation is the crucial ingredient when added to poverty, landlessness, and literacy. In Kerala, the matrilineal family...

...Anand A. Yang Rural Organizations in South India: The Dynamics of Laborer and Tenant Unions and Farmer Associations in Kerala and Tamil Nadu . By K. C. Alexander . Ithaca, N.Y. : Rural Development Committee, Center for International Studies, Cornell University , 1979 . v, 101 pp. $3.50...

...Stephen F. Dale Mappila Muslims of Kerala: A Study in Islamic Trends . By Roland E. Miller . Bombay : Orient Longman , 1976 (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo.), xvi, 350 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. Rs. 65; $13.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Dennis B. McGilvray Migration and Ethnicity in Urban India: Kerala Migrants in the City of Madras, 1870–1970 . By Susan Lewandowski . New Delhi : Manohar , 1980 . ix, 215 pp. Figures, Tables, Select Bibliography, Index. $18 (cloth). (Distributed by South Asia Books, Columbia, Mo...

...J. Devika Abstract The article critiques the “Kerala model,” which holds up Kerala State, India, as a model that may be emulated by other developing countries, on account of its remarkable advances in social development. The dominant left in Kerala has often claimed credit for such achievements...

...Barbara N. Ramusack Politics, Women and Well-Being: How Kerala Became “a Model.” . By Robin Jefferey . Houndmills : The Macmillian Press Ltd. xviii, 285 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 190 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES fathers Mohan...

...T. J. Nossiter Dynamics of State Politics, Kerala . Edited by N. Jose Chander . New Delhi : Sterling Publishers , 1986 . xii, 224 pp. Rs. 125.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 672 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES from outside. The three chapters...

...Robin Jeffrey Science in Participatory Development. The Achievements and Dilemmas of a Development Movement: The Case of Kerala . By Mathew Zachariah and R. Sooryamoorthy . London and Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Zed Books , 1994 . 187 pp. $55.00 (hardback), $19.95 (paper...

...Rich Freeman Abstract This paper addresses the problematic birth of the Malayalam language of Kerala in medieval South India. I say “problematic” because, of course, languages are never really born. Indeed, the dominant tradition of language genesis in India long asserted that all languages...

...Edward O. Henry Bake Restudy, 1984 (video) and The Bake Restudy in India, 1938–1984: The Preservation and Transformation of Performance in Tamilnadu, Kerala, and Karnataka . (video monograph). By Nazir Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin . Van Nuys, Calif . Apsara Media for Intercultural Education...