Author: Directory of Census Operations, Kerala
Title: Survey Reports on Selected Villages: Parassala Village in Trivandrum district
Description: Delhi, Controller of Publications, (1985). orig.boards. 30x21cm, (5),128 pp, IOriginal cloth-backed boards. Census of India 1971: Series 9 - Kerala, pt. VI - C.. map, textual tables. Some cover soil & stains,corners bumped,rubbed,spine chip,Good+ ¶ Study of the southernmost village of Kerala state, (30 km south of Trivandrum) on the border with Tamil Nadu. "Parassala village can be considered the meeting place where culture & traditions of the Tamil- speaking South mingle with those of the Malayalam-speaking North". Details physical characteristics of the village, social demography & vital statistics; economy; social & cultural life. Publisher's colophon at bottom of last page reads: "MGIPCBE - S6 - 1 Census/ Kerala/ 84 - 2-11-85 -300." [ie: published in an edition of 300 copies]

Keywords: Kerala, Rural sociology, Social geography, Social anthropology, Trivandrum, Demography, Social statistics, Population, South Asia India, Parassala Census