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082			_223 _a306.609 _bMATC
100			_aGeorge Mathew _911760
245			_aCommunal Road to a Secular Kerala
260			_aNew Delhi: _bConcept Publishing Company, _c1989.
300			_axiii,239 p. _bHB _c22x15 cm.
365			_b175.00 _c₹ _d175.00
520			_aCOMMUNAL 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.
650			_aSecularism _911754
650			_aSocial Conditions _911755
650			_aCommunalism _911756
650			_aRegion and Sociology _911757
700			_aMATHEW (George) _911758
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