Harbinger of rain: land and life in South India/ A.R. Vasavi
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xiv, 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195644210Subject(s): Rural development | Social change | Rural conditions | EthnologyDDC classification: 306.09548Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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