Crooked Stalks Cultivating Virtue in South India

Name: Crooked Stalks Cultivating Virtue in South India
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ISBN: 9780822345312

ISBN-10: 0822345315

ISBN-13: 9780822345312

Edition: 2009

Authors: Anand Pandian

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How do people come to live as they ought to live?Crooked Stalksseeks an answer to this enduring question in diverse practices of cultivation: in the moral horizons of development intervention, in the forms of virtue through which people may work upon their own desires, deeds, and habits, and in the material labours that turn inhabited worlds into environments for both moral and natural growth. Focusing on the colonial subjection and contemporary condition of the Piramalai Kallar caste-classified, condemned, and policed for decades as a "criminal tribe"-Anand Pandian argues that the work of cultivation in all of these senses has been essential to the pursuit of modernity in south India.…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Anand Pandian is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India.Daud Ali is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India.



Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration


Introduction



"A Rough Spade for a Rugged Landscape": On Savage Selves and More Civil Places



"What Remains of the Harvest When the Fence Grazes the Grop?": 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


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index