Land and Caste in South India

📦 Product Details

• Author: Dharma Kumar
• Publisher: Manohar Pubns
• Publication Date: 30 January 2025
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Print Length: 252 pages
• ISBN-10: 8173040052
• ISBN-13: 9788173040054
• Item Weight: 650 g

📖 About the Book

Land and Caste in South India examines the historical relationship between land ownership, agrarian structures, and caste in South India. The book explores how patterns of landholding and changes in rural society were connected with social and economic relationships.

Dharma Kumar's work is particularly relevant to readers interested in Indian economic history, agrarian history, caste studies, rural society, and the social history of South India. It offers a valuable perspective for understanding the interaction between economic resources and social structures in historical India.

✍️ About the Author

Dharma Kumar was a distinguished Indian economic historian whose scholarship focused on Indian economic and social history, particularly agrarian relations, land systems, and colonial-era economic development.

Her research made an important contribution to the study of India's rural economy and the historical relationship between social institutions and economic change.