Book
The Nadars of Tamilnad: the political culture of a community in change
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Hardgrave, Robert L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a study of the social and economic changes experienced by people of the Nadar (Shanar, Shanan) caste over the past 150 years. The author focuses on the available avenues of caste mobility in Tamilnad, and discusses attempts by the Nadars at 'social uplift' and how they have affected the solidarity and internal structure of the caste over time. He then examines the degree of involvement and interest of caste members in the political life of South India, and presents five life histories of individual Nadars at the end of the source to highlight Nadar sentiments concerning politics and caste.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Purification and atonement
- Eating
- Collecting
- Missions
- Mercantile business
- External relations
- Political movements
- Life history materials
- Cultural goals
- Litigation
- Cultural participation
- Public welfare
- Political parties
- Elections
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Brawls, riots, and banditry
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Political Scientist
- 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 ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1965
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.
- Sponsored by the Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-294)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 69013726
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nadars/Political culture--India--Tamil Nadu--Case studies