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Crooked stalks, cultivating virtue in South India, Anand Pandian

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Crooked stalks, cultivating virtue in South India, Anand Pandian

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrationsmaps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Crooked stalks

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electronic resource

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dictionariesbibliography

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Anand Pandian

Sub title

cultivating virtue in South India

Summary

A study of the Piramalai Kallars (Kallans) a South Indian caste, widely viewed as thieves. (The ethnonym means "thief" in Tamil, and the British government designated them a "criminal tribe" in 1918.)

Table Of Contents

"A rough spade for a rugged landscape" : on savage selves and more civil places -- "What remains of the harvest when the fence grazes the crop?" : on the proper violence of agrarian citizenship -- "The life of the thief leaves the belly always boiling" : on the nature and restraint of the criminal animal -- "Millets sown yield millets, evil sown yields evil" : on the moral returns of agrarian toil -- "Let the water for the paddy also irrigate the grass" : on the sympathies of an aqueous self

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Cultivating virtue in South India

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