Kerala Bibliography


Please feel free to make use of this bibliography in your research. See also the 1995-96 Update. I welcome all criticisms and comments. And especially -- suggestions for additional bibliography. E-mail them to me (franker@mail.montclair.edu) or set up your own bibliography page on the Kerala home page.



Note:  Readers may also want to consult the extensive bibliogra-
phy in Franke, 1993, listed below

 
Agarwal, Bina.  1986.  Women, poverty, and agricultural growth 
     in India.  The Journal of Peasant Studies 13(4):167-220.

Ahluwalia, Montek S. [1974] 1984.  Income inequality:  some 
     dimensions of the problem.  In The Gap Between Rich and 
     Poor:  Contending Perspectives on the Political Economy of 
     Development, ed. Mitchell A. Seligson.  Boulder:  Westview 
     Press.  14-21.

Alexander, William.  1994.  Exceptional Kerala:  Efficient and 
     Sustainable Human Behavior.  Unpublished Manuscript.

Attali, Jacques.  1991.  Millennium:  Winners and Losers in the 
     Coming World Order.  New York.  Random House.

Basu, Alaku Malwade.  1986.  Birth control by assetless workers 
     in Kerala:  The possibility of a poverty-induced fertility 
     transition.  Development and Change 17(2):265-282.

Bello, Walden, with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau.  1994.  Dark 
     Victory:  The United States, Structural Adjustment and 
     Global Poverty.  Oakland.  Food First.

Berg, Alan.  1987.  Malnutrition:  What Can Be Done?  Baltimore:  
     Johns Hopkins University Press.  Published for the World 
     Bank.

Billig, Michael S.  1992.  The marriage squeeze and the rise of 
     groomprice in India's Kerala State.  Journal of Comparative 
     Family Studies 23(2):197-216.

Boone, Margaret S.  1989.  Capital Crime:  Black Infant Mortality 
     in America.  Newbury Park:  Sage Publications.

Bose, Ashish.  1991.  Population of India:  1991 Census Results 
     and Methodology.  Delhi.  B. R. Publishing Corporation.

Bowles, Samulel, Gordon, David M., and Weisskopf, Thomas.  
     1990.  After the Wasteland:  A Democratic Economics for the 
     Year 2000.  Armonk, N.Y.  M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

Cereseto, Shirley, and Howard Waitzkin.  1988.  Economic devel-
     opment, political-economic system, and the physical quality 
     of life.  Journal of Public Health Policy, Spring 1988:104-
     120.

Chandran, K. Narayana.  1994.  Literacy in India and the exam-
     ple of Kerala.  Journal of Reading 37(6):514-517.  March, 
     1994.

Charlton, Sue Ellen M.  1984.  Women in Third World Develop-
     ment.  Boulder:  Westview Press.

Chasin, Barbara H.  1988.  Land reform and women's work in a 
     Kerala village.  Paper presented at the 87th annual meeting 
     of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, 
     Arizona.

Chattopadhyay, Srikumar.  1985.  Deforestation in parts of 
     Western Ghats Region (Kerala), India.  Journal of Environ-
     mental Management 20:219-230.

Chattopadhyay, Srikumar et al.  1991.  Micro/Village Level 
     Resources Survey with People's Participation for Sustainable 
     Development.  Paper prepared for the International Seminar 
     on Monitoring Geosystems:  Perspectives for the 21st 
     Century.  New Delhi.  6-9 December, 1991.

Crossette, Barbara.  1990.  A success story that all can read.  
     The New York Times.  16 March, 1990:A4.

Cultural Survival.  1989.  India:  Cultures in crisis.  Cultural 
     Survival Quarterly 13(2).

Das Gupta, Monica.  1987.  Selective discrimination against female 
     children in rural Punjab, India.  Population and Develop-
     ment Review 13(1):77-100.

Dhanagare, D. N. 1988.  The green revolution and social inequal-
     ities in rural India.  Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 
     20(2):2-13.

Economic and Political Weekly.  1990.  Kerala Economy at the 
     Crossroads.  Special Issues on Kerala.  25(35-36) and 
     25(37).

Franke, Richard W.  1988.  Height and weight of children:  
     Nadur village, Kerala.  Unpublished manuscript.

-----.  1988a.  Redistribution as a development strategy:  pre-
     liminary results from a Kerala village.  Paper presented at 
     the 87th annual meeting of the American Anthropological 
     Association.  Phoenix, Arizona.

-----.  1992.  Land reform versus inequality in Nadur village, 
     Kerala.  Journal of Anthropological Research 48(2):81-116.

-----.  1993.  Life Is A Little Better:  Redistribution as a Devel-
     opment Strategy in Nadur Village, Kerala.  Boulder, Color-
     ado.  Westview Press.

-----.  1993a.  Feeding programmes and food intake in a Kerala 
     village.  Economic and Political Weekly 27(8-9):355-360.

-----, and Chasin, Barbara H.  1991.  Reply to K. T. Ram 
     Mohan.  Monthly Review 43(7):32-33.

French, Hilary F.  1994.  Rebuilding the World Bank.  In Brown, 
     Lester, et al.  State of the World 1994.  New York.  W. W. 
     Norton and Company.  Pp. 156-176.

Fuller, C. J.  1976.  The Nayars Today.  New York:  Cambridge 
     University press.

Gangadharan.  T.  1993.  Report on Kalliasseri People's Mapping 
     Project at the National Level Orientation Course on Drinking 
     Water and Sanitation Programme with People's Participation.  
     IRTC Mundur, 1 October 1993.

Gargan, Edward A.  1993.  For many brides in India, a dowry 
     buys death.  The New York Times 30 December, 1993:A3.

Geetha, S., and Suryanarayana, M. H.  1993.  Revamping PDS:  
     some issues and implications.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     28(41):2207-2213.

George, Alex, and Nandraj, Sunil.  1993.  State of health care in 
     Maharashtra:  a comparative analysis.  Economic and Politi-
     cal Weekly 28(32-33):1671-1683.

George, K. K.  1993.  Limits to Kerala Model of Development:  
     An Analysis of Fiscal Crisis and Its Implications.  Thiruva-
     nanthapuram.  Centre for Development Studies.  Monograph 
     Series.

George, K. M.  1971.  Malayalam Grammar and Reader.  Kot-
     tayam:  National Book Stall.

George, P. S.  1979.  Public Distribution of Foodgrains in Kerala 
     -- Income Distribution Implications and Effectiveness.  
     International Food Policy Research Institute.  Research 
     Report 7.  Washington, D. C.

Gopalan, C., B. V. Rama Sastri, and S. C. Balasubramanian.  
     1985.  Nutritive Value of Indian Foods.  Delhi: National 
     Institute of Nutrition and Indian Council of Medical Re-
     search (ICMR).

Gough, Kathleen.  1961.  Nayar:  Central Kerala; Nayar:  North 
     Kerala; Tiyya [Ezhava]: North Kerala; and Mappilla:  North 
     Kerala.  In Matrilineal Kinship, ed. David M. Schneider and 
     Kathleen Gough, 298-442.  Berkeley: University of Califor-
     nia Press.

_____.  1970.  Palakkara:  social and religious change in central 
     Kerala.  In Change and Continuity in India's Villages, ed. 
     K. Ishwaran, 129-164.  New York: Columbia University 
     Press.

Government of India (GOI).  1932.  Census of India, 1931.  
     Volume 28:  Travancore, Part I:  Report.  By Rao Sahib 
     N. Kunjan Pillai.  Trivandrum: Government Press.

Government of Kerala (GOK).  1984.  Women in Kerala.  Triva-
     ndrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____.  1985.  Selected Indicators of Development in India and 
     Kerala.  Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statis-
     tics.

_____.  1985a.  Report on Wage Structure Survey in Kerala:  
     1977-1982.  Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Sta-
     tistics.

_____.  1985b.  Report of the Survey on Socioeconomic Conditions 
     of Agricultural and Other Rural Labourers in Kerala:  1983-
     84.  Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____.  1985c.  State Income and Related Aggregates of Kerala.  
     Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____.  1986  Kerala Economy 1986.  Trivandrum: Department of 
     Economics and Statistics.

_____.  1988.  Economic Review:  1987.  Trivandrum: State Plan-
     ning Board.

_____.  1989.  Economic Review:  1988.  Trivandrum: State Plan-
     ning Board.

_____.  1990.  Economic Review:  1989.  Thiruvananthapuram:  
     State Planning Board.

_____.  1991.  Economic Review:  1990.  Thiruvananthapuram: 
     State Planning Board.

_____. 1992.  Economic Review: 1991.  Thiruvananthapuram.  
     State Planning Board.

-----.  1993.  Economic Review 1992.  Thiruvananthapuram.  
     State Planning Board.

-----.  1994.  Economic Review 1993.  Thiruvananthapuram.  
     State Planning Board.

Grant, James P.  1988.  The State of the World's Children:  
     1988. Oxford:  Oxford University Press.  Published for 
     UNICEF.

_____.  1989.  The State of the World's Children:  1989.  Oxford: 
     Oxford University Press.  Published for UNICEF.

Gulati, Leela.  1984.  Fisherwomen on the Kerala Coast.  Geneva:  
     International Labor Organization.

-----.  1990.  Agricultural workers' pension in Kerala:  an ex-
     periment in social assistance.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     25(6):339-343.

-----.  1992.  Economic and Social Aspects of Population Ageing 
     in Kerala, India.  New York.  United Nations.

Gupta, Shekhar.  1991.  Kerala:  the literacy war.  India Today, 
     31 August 1991:77 and 80.

Gwatkin, Davidson R.  1979.  Food policy, nutriton planning and 
     survival:  The cases of Kerala and Sri Lanka.  Food Policy, 
     November:245-258.

Harris, Marvin.  1981.  America Now:  The Anthropology of a 
     Changing Culture.  New York.  Simon and Schuster.

-----, and Eric Ross.  1987.  Death, Sex and Fertility:  Popula-
     tion Regulation in Preindustrial and Developming Societies.  
     New York:  Columbia University Press.

Herring, Ronald J.  1980.  Abolition of landlordism in Kerala:  a 
     redistribution of privilege.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     15(26):A59-A69. 

_____.  1983.  Land to the Tiller:  The Political Economy of 
     Agrarian Reform in South Asia.  New Haven: Yale Universi-
     ty Press.

_____.  1989.  Dilemmas of agrarian communism:  peasant differen-
     tiation, sectoral and village politics.  Third World Quarterly 
     11(1):89-115.

-----.  1991.  From structural conflict to agrarian stalemate:  
     agrarian reforms in south India.  Journal of Asian and 
     African Studies 26(3-4):169-188.

Howes, Stephen and Jha, Shikha.  1992.  Urban bias in Indian 
     public distribution system.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     27(19):1022-1030.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).  1972.  Growth and 
     Physical Development of Indian Infants and Children.  New 
     Delhi.

Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).  Central 
     Statistical Organization.  1983.  Social Information of India:  
     Trends and Structure.  Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corpo-
     ration.

Isaac, Thomas.  1983.  The Emergence of Radical Working Class 
     Movement in Alleppey (1922-1938).  Centre for Development 
     Studies.  Working Paper No. 175.  Trivandrum.

Isaac, Thomas, and B. Ekbal.  1988.  Science for social revolu-
     tion:  experience of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad.  
     Paper presented at the Peoples Science Congress.  Canna-
     nore, Kerala.  11-12 February 1988.

Isaac, T. M. Thomas.  1992.  Economic Consequences of the Gulf 
     Crisis:  A Study of India with Special Reference to Kerala.  
     New Delhi.  Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion, 
     International Labour Organisation.  Publication No. 
     RAS/88/029.

-----.  and Franke, Richard W.  1994.  From antifeudalism to 
     sustainable development:  the Kerala People's Science 
     Movement.  Unpublished manuscript.

-----.  and S. Mohana Kumar.  1991.  Kerala elections, 1991:  
     lessons and non-lessons.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     26(47):2691-2704.

-----, Van Stuijvenberg, P. A., and Nair, K. N.  1992.  Moder-
     nisation and Employment:  The Coir Industry in Kerala.  
     New Delhi.  Sage Publications.  Indo-Dutch Studies on 
     Development Alternatives No. 10.

ISIS (Women's International Information and Communication Serv-
     ice).  1984.  Women in Development:  A Resource Guide for 
     Organization and Action.  Philadelphia:  New Society Pub-
     lishers.

Iyer, L. K. Anantha Krishna.  1981 [orig. 1909]  The Tribes and 
     Castes of Cochin.  New Delhi: Cosmo Publications.  3 vols.

Jain, Devaki, Nalini Singh, and Malini Chand.  1982.  India.  In 
     Women in Asia.  Minority Rights Group Report no. 45.  
     London.

Jeffery, Roger.  1988.  The Politics of Health in India.  Berke-
     ley:  University of California Press.

Jeffrey, Robin.  1976.  The Decline of Nayar Dominance:  Society 
     and Politics in Travancore, 1847-1908.  New York: Holmes & 
     Meier Publishers, Inc.

_____.  1978.  Travancore:  status, class and the growth of 
     radical politics, 1860-1940 -- the temple-entry movement.  
     In People, Princes and Paramount Power:  Society and Polit-
     ics in the Indian Princely States, ed. Robin Jeffrey, 136-
     69.  Delhi: Oxford University Press.

_____.  1987.  Culture of daily newspapers in India:  how it's 
     grown, what it means.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     22(14):607-611.

_____.  1993.  Politics, Women and Well Being:  How Kerala 
     Became 'A Model.'  Delhi.  Oxford University Press.

_____.  1994.  Kerala's story [Review of Kerala:  Radical Reform 
     As Development in an Indian State].  Economic and Political 
     Weekly 29(10):549.

Joshi, Barbara, ed., 1986.  Untouchable!  Voices of the Dalit 
     Liberation Movement.  London: Zed Books.  Published for 
     the Minority Rights Group.

Kannan, K. P.  1981.  A people's science movement.  Develop-
     ment Seeds of change 1981(1):37-40.

Kannan, K. P.  1988.  Of Rural Proletarians:  Mobilization and 
     Organization of Rural Workers in South-west India.  Delhi: 
     Oxford University Press.

Kannan, K. P., and K. Pushpangadan.  1988.  Agricultural 
     stagnation in Kerala:  an exploratory analysis.  Economic 
     and Political Weekly 23(39):A120-A128.

Kannan, K. P., K. R. Thankappan, V. Raman Kutty, and K. P. 
     Aravindan.  1991.  Health and Development in Rural Kerala.  
     Trivandrum:  Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad.

Kaplan, Robert D.  1994.  The coming anarchy:  how scarcity, 
     crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly 
     destroying the social fabric of our planet. The Atlantic 
     Monthly 273(2):44-76.

Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad.  1991.  Lead Kindly Light:  
     Operation Illiteracy Eradication.  A Report on the Intensive 
     Campaign for Eradication of Illiteracy in Eranakulam.  
     Thiruvananthapuram.  KSSP.

Kozol, Jonathan.  1985.  Illiterate America.  Garden City: Anchor 
     Press.

Krishnan, T. N.  1976.  Demographic transition in Kerala:  facts 
     and factors.  Economic and Political Weekly 11(31-33):1203-
     1224.

_____.  1991.  Wages, employment, and output in interrelated 
     labour markets in an agrarian economy:  a study of Kerala.  
     Economic and Political Weekly 26(26):A82-A92.

Kumar, B. Gopalakrishna.  1989.  Gender, differential mortality 
     and development:  the experience of Kerala.  Cambridge 
     Journal of Economics 13:517-539.

_____.  1993.  Low mortality and high morbidity in Kerala recon-
     sidered.  Population and Development Review 19(1):103-121.

_____.  1993a  Quality of life and nutritional status:  a reconsid-
     eration of some puzzles from Kerala.  In Development and 
     Change:  Essays in Honour of K. N. Raj, ed. Pranad 
     Bardhan, Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, and T. N. Krishnan, 
     318-340.  Bombay:  Oxford University Press.

Kumar, Gopalakrishnan, and Frances Stewart.  1987.  Tackling 
     Malnutrition:  What Can Targeted Nutritional Interventions 
     Achieve?  Centre for Development Studies.  Working Paper 
     No. 225.  Trivandrum.

Kumar, Shubh K.  1979.  Impact of Subsidized Rice on Food 
     Consumption and Nutrition in Kerala.  International Food 
     Policy Research Institute, Research Report 5.  Washington, 
     D. C.

Kumar, S. Mohana.  1993.  Literacy movement in Kerala:  one 
     step forward, two steps backwards.  Economic and Political 
     Weekly 28(41):2187-2191.

Kunakrishnan, K.  1991.  Handwriting on the wall (literacy in 
     Kerala).  Far Eastern Economic Review 151(22):56, 30 May, 
     1991.

Kutty, V. Raman.  1989.  Rationing medical care in Kerala:  
     price and non-price mechanisms.  Economic and Political 
     Weekly 24(35-36):1991-1992.

Kuznets, Simon.  1955.  Economic growth and income inequality.  
     American Economic Review 45:1,3-6,17-26.  Partly reprinted 
     in Mitchell A. Seligson, ed., 1984,  pp. 25-37.

Lappe, Frances Moore, and Rachel Schurman.  1988.  The Missing 
     Piece in the Population Puzzle.  Institute for Food and 
     Development Policy Development Report no. 4.  San Fran-
     cisco.

Lewis, John P. and Valeriana Kallab, eds.  1983.  U.S. Foreign 
     Policy and the Third World:  Agenda 1983.  New York: 
     Praeger Publishers.  Published for the Overseas Develop-
     ment Council.

Liddle, Joanna, and Rama Joshi.  1986.  Daughters of Indepen-
     dence:  Gender, Caste, and Class in India.  London:  Zed 
     Press.

Lipton, Michael.  1977.  Why Poor People Stay Poor:  Urban Bias 
     in World Development.  Cambridge: Harvard University 
     Press.

_____.  1988.  The Poor and the Poorest:  Some Interim Findings.  
     The World Bank.  Discussion Paper No. 25.  Washington, 
     D. C.

Mahadevan, K. and M. Sumangala.  1987.  Social Development, 
     Cultural Change and Fertility Decline:  A Study of Fertility 
     Change in Kerala.  New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Mari Bhat, P. N., and S. Irudaya Rajan.  1990.  Demographic 
     transition in Kerala revisited.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     25(35):1957-1980.

Mathew, Joseph.  1986.  Ideology, Protest, and Social Mobility:  
     Case Study of Mahars and Pulayas.  New Delhi: Inter-India 
     Publications.

Mathew, P. M.  1986.  Women's industrial employment in Kerala, 
     India.  Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 18(3):43-58.

Mencher, Joan.  1962.  Changing familial roles among South 
     Malabar Nayars.  Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 
     18:230-245.

_____.  1966.  Namboodiri Brahmins of Kerala:  an analysis of a 
     traditional elite in Kerala.  Journal of Asian and African 
     Studies 1:183-96.

-----.  1966a.  Kerala and Madras:  A comparative study of 
     ecology and social structure.  Ethnology 5(2):135-171.

_____.  1974.  The caste system upside down: or, the not so 
     mysterious East.  Current Anthropology 15:469-478.

-----.  1976.  Land reform and socialism:  The case of Kerala.  
     In Aspects of Changing India:  Studies in Honour of Prof. 
     G. S. Ghurye, ed. S. Devadas Pillai.

_____.  1978.  Agrarian relations in two rice regions of Kerala.  
     Economic and Political Weekly 13(6-7):349-366.

_____.  1980.  The lessons and non-lessons of Kerala.  Economic 
     and Political Weekly 15(41-43):1781-1802.

_____.  1980a.  On being an untouchable in India:  a materialist 
     perspective Beyond the Myths of Culture, ed. Eric Ross, 
     261-294.  New York: Academic Press.

_____.  1982.  Agricultural labourers and poverty.  Economic and 
     Political Weekly 17(1-2):38-44.

-----.  1991.  Agricultural labour and pesticides in rice regions 
     of India:  some health considerations.  Economic and Politi-
     cal Weekly 26(39):2263-2268.

-----, and K. Saradamoni.  1982.  Muddy feet, dirty hands:  
     Rice production and female agricultural labour.  Economic 
     and Political Weekly 17(52):A149-A167.

Menon, A. Sreedhara.  1984.  A Survey of Kerala History.  
     Madras: S. Viswanathan.

Menon, Dilip M.  1994.  Caste, Nationalism, and Communism in 
     South India:  Malabar, 1900-1948.  Cambridge.  Cambridge 
     University Press.

Menon, V. Viswanatha.  1987.  Budget Speech:  Revised Budget 
     198788.  Trivandrum:  Government of Kerala.

-----.  1988.  Budget Speech 1988-89.  Trivandrum:  Government 
     of Kerala.

Messer, Ellen.  1986.  The "small but healthy" hypothesis:  
     Historical, political, and ecological influences on nutritional 
     standards.  Human Ecology 14(1):57-75.

Mies, Maria.  1980.  Indian Women and Patriarchy:  Conflicts and 
     Dilemmas of Students and Working women.  New Delhi:  
     Concept Publishing Company.

-----.  1980a.  Capitalist development and subsistence reproduc-
     tion:  rural women in India.  Bulletin of Concerned Asian 
     Scholars 12(1):2-14.

Miller, Barbara.  1981.  The Endangered Sex:  Neglect of Female 
     Children in Rural North India.  Ithaca:  Cornell University 
     Press.

-----.  1982.  Female labor participation and female seclusion in 
     rural India:  a regional view.  Economic Development and 
     Cultural Change 30(4):777-794.

Miller, Roland E.  1976.  Mappila Muslims of Kerala:  A Study in 
     Islamic Trends.  Madras: Orient Longman Ltd.

Mohan, K. T. Ram.  1991.  Understanding Keralam:  the tragedy 
     of radical scholarship.  Monthly Review 43(7):18-31.

Mooij, Jos.  1994.  Public distribution system as safety net.  Who 
     is saved?  Economic and Political Weekly 29(3):119-126.

Morris, David Morris.  1979.  Measuring the Condition of the 
     World's Poor:  The Physical Quality of Life Index.  New 
     York: Pergamon Press.  Published for the Overseas Devel-
     opment Council.

Morris, D. M. and Michelle B. McAlpin.  1982.  Measuring the 
     Condition of India's Poor:  The Physical Quality of Life 
     Index.  New Delhi: Promilla & Co.

Mosher, Arthur T.  1966.  Getting Agriculture Moving.  New 
     York:  Praeger.

-----.  1969.  Creating a Progressive Rural Structure.  New 
     York:  Agricultural Development Council.

Mukherjee, Chandan.  1979.  Lorenz Ratios for Distribution of 
     Rural Ownership and Operational Land Holdings, India, 
     1971-72.  Centre for Development Studies.  Working Paper 
     No. 94.  Trivandrum.

Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee.  1984.  Silver Shackles:  Women and 
     Development in India.  Oxford:  Oxfam.

Murickan, J.  1975.  Women in Kerala:  changing socioeconomic 
     status and self-image.  In Women in Contemporary India:  
     Traditional Images and Changing Roles.  ed. Alfred de 
     Souza, 73-95.  New Delhi:  Manohar.

Murray, C. L. J. and Chen, L. C. 1990.  Understanding morbidi-
     ty change.  Poulation and Development Review 18:451-503.

Nag, Moni.  1989. Political awareness as a factor in accessibility 
     of health services:  a case study of rural Kerala and West 
     Bengal.  Economic and Political Weekly 24(8):417-426.

Nair, P. R. Gopinathan.  1974.  Decline in birth rate in Kerala:  
     a hypothesis about the inter-relationship between demo-
     graphic variables, health services and education.  Economic 
     and Political Weekly 9:323-336.

_____.  1979.  Role of primary education in socioeconomic change:  
     the Kerala case.  In Kerala Economy Since Independence,  
     ed. M. A. Oomen, 85-102.  Delhi: Oxford. 

_____.  1983.  Educational Reforms in India:  Universalisation of 
     Primary Education in Kerala.  Centre for Development 
     Studies.  Working Paper No. 181.  Trivandrum.

_____, and D. Ajit.  1983.  Parallel Colleges in Kerala:  a Case 
     Study of Their Structure in Terms of Enrollment Costs and 
     Employment.  Centre for Development Studies.  Working 
     Paper No. 156.  Trivandrum.

Nair, R. Ramakrishnan.  1976.  Social Structure and Political 
     Development in Kerala.  Trivandrum: St. Joseph's Press for 
     The Kerala Academy of Political Science. 

Namboodiripad, E. M. S.  1976.  How I Became a Communist.  
     Trivandrum:  Chinta Publishers.

_____.  [1967] 1984.  Kerala Society and Politics:  An Historical 
     Survey.  New Delhi: National Book Centre.

Nash, June.  1994.  Global integration and subsistence insecuri-
     ty.  American Anthropologist 96(1):7-30.

Nath, V.  1991 population census:  some facts and policy issues. 
     Economic and Political Weekly 26(29):2148-2152.

National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).  1991.  Crime in India 
     1989.  New Delhi.  Ministry of Home Affairs.

Nayanar, E. K.  1982.  My Struggles:  An Autobiography.  New 
     Delhi: Vikas.

Nelson, Nici.  1979.  Why Has Development Neglected Rural 
     Women?  A Review of the South Asian Literature.  New 
     York:  Pergamon Press.  

New Internationalist.  1993.  Paradox in Paradise:  Kerala:  
     India's Radical Success.  Special Issue on Kerala.  No. 241, 
     March 1993.

Nieuwenhuys, Olga.  1990.  Angels with Callous Hands:  Child-
     ren's Work in Rural Kerala (India).  Ph. D. Dissertation.  
     Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam.

Ninan, K. N.  1986.  Cereal Substitutes in a Developing Econo-
     my:  A Study of Tapioca (Kerala State).  New Delhi: 
     Concept Publishing Company.

Nossiter, T. J.  1982.  Communism in Kerala:  A Study in Politi-
     cal Adaptation.  Delhi: Oxford University Press.

_____.  1988.  Marxist State Governments in India.  London: 
     Pinter Publishers.

Oldenburg, Philip.  1992.  Sex ratio, son preference and violence 
     in India:  a research note.  Economic and Political Weekly 
     27(49-50):2567-2662.

Oomen, T. K.  1985.  From Mobilization to Institutionalization:  
     The Dynamics of Agrarian Movement in Twentieth Century 
     Kerala.  Bombay: Popular Prakashan.

Panicker, K. N. and Dhanda, Vijai.  1992.  Community participa-
     tion in the control of filariasis.  World Health Forum 13:177-
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Videos About Kerala

All except Altar of Fire are 25 to 30 minutes


Altar of Fire.  1977.  [A 1975 performance of an  ancient Hindu 
     Vedic ritual].  Robert Gardner and Frits Staal.  Berkeley.  
     University of California Extension Media Center.  45 
     minutes.

The Quiet Revolution:  Kerala.  1994.   [The 1990 Ernakulam 
     District Total Literacy Programme in one village].  Available 
     from The Rodale Institute, 611 Seigfriedale Rd., Kutztown, 
     PA, 19530.

The following four videos are vailable with English soundtrack 
from: Centre for Development of Imaging Technology, Chitranjali 
Studio Complex, Thiurvallom, Thiruvananthapuram 695 027, Kerala, 
India, FAX [91-471] 644569 Code 17.

Declining Birth Rate:  Lessons from Kerala.

Plotting the Riches [The People's Resource Mapping Programme].

Ruin of the Commons? [Destruction of fishing off Kerala's coast].

The Weeping Rice Bowl [Environmental destruction of Lake 
     Vembanad and surrounding rice fields].

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