State Formation, Agrarian Growth and Social Change in Feudal South India
- New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2000.
- 261 p
Introduction. Part I. The growth of a feudal polity: 1) Towards a system of private government. 2) The gradations of rank and power. Part II. Agrarian expansion and market development: 3) The nuclei of agrarian growth. 4) Private farms and servile labour. 5) The technique of agriculture. 6) Increase in crop production. 7) The growth of a market economy. Part III. Social conflicts and subcaste formation: 8) From collaboration to conflict. 9) Formation of Brahmana subcastes. 10) The proliferation of professional castes. 11) Deprivation of artisans. 12) Women in the feudal milieu.