ISBN10: 8125057226, ISBN13: 9788125057222, [publisher: Orient BlackSwan] Hardcover pp. 256 Figures
[Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

Orient BlackSwan , pp. 256 Index. Hardback. New. Orient BlackSwan ISBN 8125057226 9788125057222 [US]

ISBN10: 8125057226, ISBN13: 9788125057222, [publisher: Orient BlackSwan] Hardcover Contents: Foreword/Gopal Guru. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Situating an unbound region: reflections on Kerala modernity/Satheese Chandra Bose and Shiju Sam Varughese. 1. The routes of pepper: colonial discourses around the spice trade in Malabar/Vinod Kottayil Kalidasan. 2. Colonial intellectuals, public sphere and the promises of modernity: reading Parangodeeparinayam/Shiju Sam Varughese. 3. (Re)construction of the Social for making a modern Kerala: Reflections on Narayana Guru s social philosophy/Satheese Chandra Bose. 4. Port building and urban modernity: Cochin, 1920-45/Justin Mathew. 5. At the end of the story: popular fiction, readership and modernity in literary Malayalam/Ancy Bay. 6. Contemporaneity and the collective: the reportage in Amma Ariyan/Ameet Parameswaran. 7. The politics of sexuality and caste: looking through Kerala s public space/Carmel Christy K. J. 8. Attukal Pongala: myth and modernity in a ritualistic space/Darshana Sreedhar. 9. The pipe dreams of development: institutionalising drinking water supply in Kerala/S. Mohammed Irshad. 10. Archaeology and the new imaginations of the past: understanding the Muziris Heritage Project/Rachel A. Varghese. References. Index. The southwest coast of India has always been a significant site within the global network of relations through trade and exchange of ideas, commodities, technologies, skills and labour. The much ...