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Ezhava and development related articles and research papers we found online:
- POVERTY, GROWTH AND DEMOCRACY --by A Varshney
- The Stain of White --by Janaki Abraham -(Premium link, Excerpt only)
- Sacred Groves of North Malabar --by M Jayarajan
- Tirurangadi-A Micro Historical Study
- Mourning Amma: funerals as politics among south Indian Ezhavas --by Olga Nieuwenhuys. (Premium link, Excerpt only)
- Politics and Gender in The Sivagiri Pilgrimage --by Alex Gath
- The Perils of Social Development without Economic Growth:The Development Debacle of Kerala, India --by Joseph Tharamangalam
- Once upon a time in the West? Stories of migration and modernity from Kerala, South India --by Osella, Caroline; Osella, Filippo (Premium link, Excerpt only)
- Indigenous medicine and cultural hegemony: A study of the revitalization movement in Keralam --by KN Panikkar (Premium link, No excerpt, Published in Studies in History)
- The Sree Narayana Effect --by BRP. Bhaskar, published in The Hindu
- BINDING EXPERIENCES AND EPISTEMOLOGIES: Looking at the contributions of Adi Sankaracarya, Tuncettu Ezuttacchan and Sri Narayana Guru in the context of recent discussions on consciousness studies --by Sangeetha Menon
- The Secret Gardens of Malabar, A biopiracy story --by Kaushik Das Gupta, in Down to Earth magazine
- The Welfare Fund Model of Social Security For Informal Sector Workers: The Kerala Experience. --by K. P. Kannan
- The Stain of White --by Janaki Abraham, Delhi University, published by Sage Publications
Historical Archives of The New York Times
The New York Times has opened up its historical archives. This is exciting news, it appears that the records of India go back to 1851. This should bring us some coverage of the 1857 Sepoy mutiny, caste reform movements, development of early industry etc. Some of the documents are limited access from NYTimes.A sample selection of relevant articles:
- Travancore Temple Entry Untouchables' Ban Ended By One of India's States; Greatest Hindu Reform in 800 Years Opens Travancore Temples to All -- Thanksgiving Fetes Held -- Spread of Move Expected. MADRAS, India, Nov. 13. -- The 24-year-old Maharajah of Travancore struck a blow at the ancient caste system of India today by decreeing that none of his 4,000,000 subjects should be barred from State temples hereafter for reasons of "birth, caste or community --Page 1, dated November 14, 1936, Saturday
- INDIAN RULER AIDS THE UNTOUCHABLES; Admission to Temples Allowed in Face of Upper Caste Ban and Centuries-Old Custom. EXAMPLE MAY BE COPIED BOMBAY. -- By a stroke of the pen on his twenty-fifth birthday the young Maharajah of Travancore has set at naught the custom of centuries and in his State abolished untouchability, root and branch. He has signed a proclamation giving to 2,000,000 of his untouchable subjects the right of entering and worshiping in public temples. -- Editorial dated December 13, 1936, Sunday
- SHORT HOURS IN TRAVANCORE TRAVANCORE, the native State at the toe of the Indian peninsula, is unique in that the government offices, including courts of law and schools, start working at 7:30 o'clock in the morning and close at 12:30 in the afternoon. --November 6, 1938, Sunday
- HINDU PROTESTANT REFORMATION; The Arya Samaj a More Radical Movement Than Its Counterpart in Christianity IT is quite impossible for any one possessed of imagination to close this book without feeling that it has introduced him to a movement of very great significance, and of an importance which cannot at present be estimated, but may reach to almost any extent. And if to imagination there be added any knowledge of the literature and thought of ancient India, this feeling will be intensified. --Book review, dated September 5, 1915, Sunday
- The India Proclamation
- The Communists taking change in Kerala, the first elected Red State in Asia as the article says.
- The Pacification of India After the sepoy mutiny.
- The Progress of Events in India - 1857
- Cultivation of Cotton in India
- A Mahommedan Conspiracy for the Sovereignty of India An interpretation of the Sepoy mutiny.
- The Abolition of The East India Company
- The East India Company Before Parliament
- Strange Customs In Travancore
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