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Harbinger of rain: land and life in South India/ A.R. Vasavi

By: Vasavi, A.RMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xiv, 178 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195644210Subject(s): Rural development | Social change | Rural conditions | EthnologyDDC classification: 306.09548

Contents:

I. Introduction -- II. The Millet Drought -- III. Life in the Black-Soil Land -- IV. Seeing Appropriateness -- V. Calling the Rains -- VI. An Enemy Like the Stomach -- VII. Re-Ordering the Land -- VIII. Life in the Drought-Afflicted Land -- IX. Hybrid Times, Hybrid People -- X. Cultural Contestations and Reconstituted Cultures -- A. Major Famines in Bijapur -- B. Hindu-English Months -- C. Classification of Rains -- D. Agro-Rituals in Bijapur.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.09548 VAS/H (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03483

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I. Introduction --
II. The Millet Drought --
III. Life in the Black-Soil Land --
IV. Seeing Appropriateness --
V. Calling the Rains --
VI. An Enemy Like the Stomach --
VII. Re-Ordering the Land --
VIII. Life in the Drought-Afflicted Land --
IX. Hybrid Times, Hybrid People --
X. Cultural Contestations and Reconstituted Cultures --
A. Major Famines in Bijapur --
B. Hindu-English Months --
C. Classification of Rains --
D. Agro-Rituals in Bijapur.

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