This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which Englis

Filippo and Caroline Osella, anthropologists who spent three years in rural Kerala, south India, write about the modern search for upward social mobility: the p

In agrarian societies land is the most important means of wealth and source of power and prestige. Rights in land are often hereditary with power and prestige.

This book is a thematic history of the communist movement in Kerala, the first major region (in terms of population) in the world to democratically elect a comm