Harbinger of rain: land and life in South India/
Vasavi, A.R.
Harbinger of rain: land and life in South India/ A.R. Vasavi - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. - xiv, 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
I. Introduction --
II. The Millet Drought --
III. Life in the Black-Soil Land --
IV. Seeing Appropriateness --
V. Calling the Rains --
VI. An Enemy Like the Stomach --
VII. Re-Ordering the Land --
VIII. Life in the Drought-Afflicted Land --
IX. Hybrid Times, Hybrid People --
X. Cultural Contestations and Reconstituted Cultures --
A. Major Famines in Bijapur --
B. Hindu-English Months --
C. Classification of Rains --
D. Agro-Rituals in Bijapur.
9780195644210
Rural development
Social change
Rural conditions
Ethnology
306.09548 / VAS/H
Harbinger of rain: land and life in South India/ A.R. Vasavi - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. - xiv, 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
I. Introduction --
II. The Millet Drought --
III. Life in the Black-Soil Land --
IV. Seeing Appropriateness --
V. Calling the Rains --
VI. An Enemy Like the Stomach --
VII. Re-Ordering the Land --
VIII. Life in the Drought-Afflicted Land --
IX. Hybrid Times, Hybrid People --
X. Cultural Contestations and Reconstituted Cultures --
A. Major Famines in Bijapur --
B. Hindu-English Months --
C. Classification of Rains --
D. Agro-Rituals in Bijapur.
9780195644210
Rural development
Social change
Rural conditions
Ethnology
306.09548 / VAS/H