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Kerala politics and the 1965 elections
International journal of comparative sociology • 8 (1) • Published In 1967 • Pages: 55-88
By: Gough, Kathleen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Kerala’s 1965 elections were notoriously inconclusive and fragmented, leading to competing interpretations of its political landscape. Some claimed that the newly formed Left Communist Party defeated the much stronger, nationally-ruling Congress Party. Others felt that the results showed a potential decline of support for Communists in favor of the Congress Party. This article argues that both views misunderstand the dynamics of Kerala’s internal politics. It shows that election outcomes were determined not by the political ideologies of competing parties but primarily by local and regional cleavages along caste, class and religious lines.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Political parties
- Elections
- Political movements
- Pressure politics
- Local officials
- Social relationships and groups
- Inter-community relations
- Revolution
- Prisons and jails
- Form and rules of government
- Real property
- Classes
- Castes
- Religious denominations
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Brawls, riots, and banditry
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kerala
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1949, 1964
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1921-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kerala, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kathleen Gough
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 88)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 65071238
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kerala (India)