Development, Democracy and the State

1 The Kerala Model: situating the critique K. RAVI RAMAN PART 1 Historical perspectives: caste, religion and development 2 Caste, public action and the Kerala Model K.T. RAMMOHAN 3 'Community' as de-imagining nation: relocating the Ezhava movement in Kerala J. REGHU 4 Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism:travails in the making of a community M.M. KHAN PART 2 Contemporary political economy 5 Freedom, economic reform and the Kerala 'Model' M.A. OOMMEN 6 On the periphery: Muslims and the Kerala Model M. KABIR 7 Learning to learn: Dalit education in Kerala ROSHNI PADMANABHAN 8 Thinking through CT scanners: the value(s) of imaging technologies in Kerala CAROLINE WILSON 9 Asian Development Bank, conditionalities and the social democratic governance: Kerala Model under pressure? K. RAVI RAMAN 10 The conjuncture of 'late socialism' in Kerala: a critique of the narrative of social democracy NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN PART 3 Gender, space and identities 11 Empowerment or politicization? The limits of gender inclusiveness of Kerala's political decentralization J. DEVIKA AND BINITHA V. THAMPI 12 The institutionalization of dowry in Kerala: feminine identity, conjugal patronage and development PRAVEENA KODOTH 13 'Caring' cosmopolitans and global migration:plus ca change? SHOBA ARUN PART 4 New social movements: political and cultural perspectives 14 Adivasi workers' struggles and the Kerala Model:interpreting the past, confronting the present LUISA STEUR 15 Social space, civil society and transformative politics of new social movements in Kerala T.T. SREEKUMAR and GOVINDAN PARAYIL

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