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Some south Indian villages
Humphrey Milford ; Oxford University Press • 1 • Published In 1918 • Pages: 6, 265
By: Slater, Gilbert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a collection of socioeconomic studies of twenty-three agricultural villages of the Madras Presidency. Eighteen university students, utilizing a questionnaire prepared by Slater, compiled brief surveys of twenty of the villages, reporting on demography, land use and land tenure, agriculture and animal husbandry, trade and industry, education, and political organization. The remaining surveys were conducted by Slater, who also provides a brief summary of selected aspects of village life in South India at the end of the volume. Resurveys of a number of these villages were conducted in 1936-1937 (Thomas and Ramakrishnan 1940) and in 1961 (Haswell 1967).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Tillage
- Domesticated animals
- Internal trade
- Retail marketing
- Education system
- Birth statistics
- Mortality
- Production and supply
- Standard of living
- Income and demand
- Wages and salaries
- Labor supply and employment
- Comparative evidence
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tamil
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- collection
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- 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
- David Sherwood
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1916-1917
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gilbert Slater
- 'On taking up my appointment as professor of Indian economics in the University of Madras in December 1915, I determined to direct the attention of students towards the study of particular villages ... I asked students of the University ... to make surveys of their native villages during the long vacation. To help them I drew up a 'village questionnaire.''--Introd. signed: Gilbert Slater
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 20019270
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)