Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of …
Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of …
Find your way across every inch of South India with full-colour maps and easy-to-follow city and temple plans. Includes Goa, Kerala, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and the Andaman Islands
This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners, it focuses on Kerala's heterogeneous medical tradition…
This book is the most comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it sheds new light on the paradoxes of the Indian state and critiques its model of economic development.
Caste, public action, and the Kerala model / KT Rammohan -- "Community" as de-imagining nation : relocating Narayana Guru and Ezhava movement in Kerala / J. Reghu -- Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism : Travails in the making of a community / M.M. Khan -- Freedom, econo…
Based on primary and secondary evidence, the purpose of this thesis is to answer why people from Kerala have been migrating to Dubai for work since the early 1970s. Reflecting upon theories of migration and adopting Sassen's position that any migration stream ought to be examine…
