01380nam a22002417a 4500 20211217143655.0 211217b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 817022282AL6 AL 23 306.609 MATC George Mathew 11760 Communal Road to a Secular Kerala New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1989. xiii,239 p. HB 22x15 cm. 175.00 ₹ 175.00 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. Secularism 11754 Social Conditions 11755 Communalism 11756 Region and Sociology 11757 MATHEW (George) 11758 ddc GF 220963 220963 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2013-03-24 0 306.609 MATC GF00852 2021-12-17 00:00:00 2021-12-17 GF