Some south Indian villages
Humphrey Milford ; Oxford University Press • 1 • Published In 1918 • Pages: 6, 265
By: Slater, Gilbert.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- South Asia
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Economist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- David Sherwood
- Field Date
- 1916-1917
- 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
- LCCN
- 20019270
- LCSH
- Tamil (Indic people)