George Mathew creator MATHEW (George) text New Delhi Concept Publishing Company 1989 monographic eng

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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. Secularism Social Conditions Communalism Region and Sociology 306.609 MATC 817022282AL6 211217 20211217143655.0