Communal Road to a Secular Kerala
George Mathew
Communal Road to a Secular Kerala - New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1989. - xiii,239 p. HB 22x15 cm.
COMMUNAL ROAD TO A SECULAR KERALA encapsulates the struggle for power and status by three dominant communities Naris, Ezhavas and Christians in Kerala. The empirical data for this work were gathered from the 90 years social history of, what was before the 1950’s, Travancore. This study considers how basic group identities and primordial loyalties play a role in social movements with the eventual result of initiating a secularising process. It analyses how traditional (ascriptive) loyalties like religion etc. (caste included) were made instruments to demand modern, secular (achievement oriented) ends. The social processes of communalisation and secularization are basic to this research.
817022282AL6
Secularism
Social Conditions
Communalism
Region and Sociology
306.609 / MATC
Communal Road to a Secular Kerala - New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1989. - xiii,239 p. HB 22x15 cm.
COMMUNAL ROAD TO A SECULAR KERALA encapsulates the struggle for power and status by three dominant communities Naris, Ezhavas and Christians in Kerala. The empirical data for this work were gathered from the 90 years social history of, what was before the 1950’s, Travancore. This study considers how basic group identities and primordial loyalties play a role in social movements with the eventual result of initiating a secularising process. It analyses how traditional (ascriptive) loyalties like religion etc. (caste included) were made instruments to demand modern, secular (achievement oriented) ends. The social processes of communalisation and secularization are basic to this research.
817022282AL6
Secularism
Social Conditions
Communalism
Region and Sociology
306.609 / MATC
