Crooked stalks
Subtitle: cultivating virtue in South India
By: Anand Pandian.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780822345145; 9780822345312
Subjects: Agriculture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India, South; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- India, South; Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects -- India, South; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A rough spade for a rugged landscape" : on savage selves and more civil places; title: "What remains of the harvest when the fence grazes the crop?" : on the proper violence of agrarian citizenship; title: "The life of the thief leaves the belly always boiling" : on the nature and restraint of the criminal animal; title: "Millets sown yield millets, evil sown yields evil" : on the moral returns of agrarian toil; title: "Let the water for the paddy also irrigate the grass" : on the sympathies of an aqueous self.