TY  - GEN
AU  - Gurukkal, Rajan
TI  - Social formations of early South India
SN  - 97801980893391
U1  - 303.095482 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social science
KW  - Social change - India - Tamil Nadu
KW  - Social change - India - Kerala
KW  - Progress
KW  - Kerala (India) - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - This book presents an incisive analysis of social formations in present-day Tamil Nadu and Kerala from pre-historic times to early medieval period. It examines the transformation from agro-pastoral to agrarian social formation by exploring areas like economy, technology, and historical processes of state formation. The volume specially focuses on the transition from clan and lineage to hereditary occupations of caste, and the social implications of the spread of writing. It also discusses the structural and institutional features of the new social formation. The Introduction provides a conceptual backdrop to the term 'social formation' and reviews the major debates surrounding social change in south India
ER  -