Author: Djurfeldt, Goran & Lindberg, Staffan
Title: Behind Poverty. The Social Formation in a Tamil Village
Description: Lund / London, Studentlietteratur/ Curzon, (1975). orig. wrappers. 22x15cm, 340 pages. Some lightly pencilled marginal marks, faint side-page-edge stain-spots.. Textual photos & tables. Some wear. Inscribed by author on title, Good. ¶ Series: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, No. 22. Contents: Theoretical Perspectives; The Social Formation of Medieval India & its Transformation in History; A Guide to Thaiyur Panchayat; Infrastructure: Poverty and Inequality; Agriculture: Productive Forces; Relations of Production; The Importance of ther Market & of Commodity Production; Salt; The Economy as a Whole; Superstructure: Ideology & Ritual Practice; Politics & Reproduction of "Underdevelopment": The Assertion of Class-rule; Politics & Reproduction.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Rural sociology, Development, Agricultural, Economics, India, Tamil Nadu, Tamilnad, South Asia, Social Anthropology