Kerala Bibliography

This is the bibliography for our book Kerala: radical reform as development in an Indian state. [Second edition, 1994].  See also the Kerala Bibliography, 1995-2002 Update. I welcome all criticisms and comments. And especially suggestions for additional bibliography. E-mail them to me ( franker@mail.montclair.edu ). Readers may also want to consult the extensive bibliography in Franke, 1996, listed below.

Agarwal, Bina. 1986. Women, poverty, and agricultural growth in India. The Journal of Peasant Studies 13(4):167-220.

Ahluwalia, Montek S. [1974] 1984. Income inequality: some dimensions of the problem. In The Gap Between Rich and Poor: Contending Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development, ed. Mitchell A. Seligson. Boulder:  Westview Press. 14-21.

Alexander, William. 1994. Exceptional Kerala: Efficient and Sustainable Human Behavior. Unpublished Manuscript.

Attali, Jacques. 1991. Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order. New York: Random House.

Basu, Alaku Malwade. 1986. Birth control by assetless workers in Kerala: The possibility of a poverty-induced fertility transition. Development and Change 17(2):265-282.

Bello, Walden, with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau. 1994. Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty. Oakland: Food First.

Berg, Alan. 1987. Malnutrition: What Can Be Done? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Published for the World Bank.

Billig, Michael S. 1992. The marriage squeeze and the rise of groomprice in India's Kerala State. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 23(2):197-216.

Boone, Margaret S. 1989. Capital Crime: Black Infant Mortality in America. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

Bose, Ashish. 1991. Population of India: 1991 Census Results and Methodology. Delhi. B. R. Publishing Corporation.

Bowles, Samulel, Gordon, David M., and Weisskopf, Thomas. 1990. After the Wasteland: A Democratic Economics for the Year 2000. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc.

Cereseto, Shirley, and Howard Waitzkin. 1988. Economic development, political-economic system, and the physical quality of life. Journal of Public Health Policy, Spring 1988:104-120.

Chandran, K. Narayana. 1994. Literacy in India and the example of Kerala. Journal of Reading 37(6):514-517. March, 1994.

Charlton, Sue Ellen M. 1984. Women in Third World Development. Boulder: Westview Press.

Chasin, Barbara H. 1988. Land reform and women's work in a Kerala village. Paper presented at the 87th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, Arizona.

Chattopadhyay, Srikumar. 1985. Deforestation in parts of Western Ghats Region (Kerala), India. Journal of Environmental Management 20:219-230.

Chattopadhyay, Srikumar et al. 1991. Micro/Village Level Resources Survey with People's Participation for Sustainable Development. Paper prepared for the International Seminar on Monitoring Geosystems: Perspectives for the 21st Century. New Delhi. 6-9 December, 1991.

Crossette, Barbara. 1990. A success story that all can read. The New York Times. 16 March, 1990:A4.

Cultural Survival. 1989. India: Cultures in crisis. Cultural Survival Quarterly 13(2).

Das Gupta, Monica. 1987. Selective discrimination against female children in rural Punjab, India. Population and
Development Review 13(1):77-100.

Dhanagare, D. N. 1988. The green revolution and social inequalities in rural India. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 20(2):2-13.

Economic and Political Weekly. 1990. Kerala Economy at the Crossroads. Special Issues on Kerala. 25(35-36) and 25(37).

Franke, Richard W. 1988. Height and weight of children: Nadur village, Kerala. Unpublished manuscript.

_____. 1988a. Redistribution as a development strategy: preliminary results from a Kerala village. Paper presented at the 87th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Phoenix, Arizona.

_____. 1992. Land reform versus inequality in Nadur village, Kerala. Journal of Anthropological Research 48(2):81-116.

_____. 1996. Life Is A Little Better: Redistribution as a Development Strategy in Nadur Village, Kerala. New Delhi: Promilla and Co., Inc., Publishers.

_____. 1993. Feeding programmes and food intake in a Kerala village. Economic and Political Weekly 27(8-9):355-360.

_____, and Chasin, Barbara H. 1991. Reply to K. T. Ram Mohan. Monthly Review 43(7):32-33.

French, Hilary F. 1994. Rebuilding the World Bank. In Brown, Lester, et al. State of the World 1994. New York. W. W. Norton and Company. Pp. 156-76.

Fuller, C. J. 1976. The Nayars Today. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gangadharan. T. 1993. Report on Kalliasseri People's Mapping Project at the National Level Orientation Course on Drinking Water and Sanitation Programme with People's Participation. IRTC Mundur, 1 October 1993.

Gargan, Edward A. 1993. For many brides in India, a dowry buys death. The New York Times 30 December, 1993:A3.

Geetha, S., and Suryanarayana, M. H. 1993. Revamping PDS: some issues and implications. Economic and Political Weekly 28(41):2207-2213.

George, Alex, and Nandraj, Sunil. 1993. State of health care in Maharashtra: a comparative analysis. Economic and Political Weekly 28(32-33):1671-1683.

George, K. K. 1993. Limits to Kerala Model of Development: An Analysis of Fiscal Crisis and Its Implications. Thiruvananthapuram: Centre for Development Studies. Monograph Series.

George, K. M. 1971. Malayalam Grammar and Reader. Kottayam: National Book Stall.

George, P. S. 1979. Public Distribution of Foodgrains in Kerala - Income Distribution Implications and Effectiveness. International Food Policy Research Institute. Research Report 7. Washington, D. C.

Gopalan, C., B. V. Rama Sastri, and S. C. Balasubramanian. 1985. Nutritive Value of Indian Foods. Delhi: National Institute of Nutrition and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

Gough, Kathleen. 1961. Nayar: Central Kerala; Nayar: North Kerala; Tiyya [Ezhava]: North Kerala; and Mappilla: North Kerala. In Matrilineal Kinship, ed. David M. Schneider and

Kathleen Gough, 298-442. Berkeley: University of California Press.

_____. 1970. Palakkara: social and religious change in central Kerala. In Change and Continuity in India's Villages, ed. K. Ishwaran, 129-164. New York: Columbia University Press.

Government of India (GOI). 1932. Census of India, 1931. Volume 28: Travancore, Part I: Report. By Rao Sahib N. Kunjan Pillai. Trivandrum: Government Press.

Government of Kerala (GOK). 1984. Women in Kerala. Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____. 1985. Selected Indicators of Development in India and Kerala. Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____. 1985a. Report on Wage Structure Survey in Kerala: 1977-1982. Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____. 1985b. Report of the Survey on Socioeconomic Conditions of Agricultural and Other Rural Labourers in Kerala: 1983-84. Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____. 1985c. State Income and Related Aggregates of Kerala. Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____. 1986. Kerala Economy 1986. Trivandrum: Department of Economics and Statistics.

_____. 1988. Economic Review: 1987. Trivandrum: State Planning Board.

_____. 1989. Economic Review: 1988. Trivandrum: State Planning Board.

_____. 1990. Economic Review: 1989. Thiruvananthapuram: State Planning Board.

_____. 1991. Economic Review: 1990. Thiruvananthapuram: State Planning Board.

_____. 1992. Economic Review: 1991. Thiruvananthapuram: State Planning Board.

_____. 1993. Economic Review: 1992. Thiruvananthapuram: State Planning Board.

_____. 1994. Economic Review: 1993. Thiruvananthapuram: State Planning Board.

Grant, James P. 1988. The State of the World's Children: 1988. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Published for UNICEF.

_____. 1989. The State of the World's Children: 1989. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Published for UNICEF.
Gulati, Leela. 1984. Fisherwomen on the Kerala Coast. Geneva: International Labor Organization.

_____. 1990. Agricultural workers' pension in Kerala: an experiment in social assistance. Economic and Political Weekly 25(6):339-343.

_____. 1992. Economic and Social Aspects of Population Ageing in Kerala, India. New York: United Nations.

Gupta, Shekhar. 1991. Kerala: the literacy war. India Today, 31 August 1991:77 and 80.

Gwatkin, Davidson R. 1979. Food policy, nutriton planning and survival: The cases of Kerala and Sri Lanka. Food Policy, November:245-258.

Harris, Marvin. 1981. America Now: The Anthropology of a Changing Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster.

_____, and Eric Ross. 1987. Death, Sex and Fertility: Population Regulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies. New York: Columbia University Press.

Herring, Ronald J. 1980. Abolition of landlordism in Kerala: a redistribution of privilege. Economic and Political Weekly 15(26):A59-A69.

_____. 1983. Land to the Tiller: The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press.

_____. 1989. Dilemmas of agrarian communism: peasant differentiation, sectoral and village politics. Third World Quarterly 11(1):89-115.

_____. 1991. From structural conflict to agrarian stalemate: agrarian reforms in south India. Journal of Asian and African Studies 26(3-4):169-88.

Howes, Stephen and Jha, Shikha. 1992. Urban bias in Indian public distribution system. Economic and Political Weekly 27(19):1022-1030.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). 1972. Growth and Physical Development of Indian Infants and Children. New Delhi.

Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). Central Statistical Organization. 1983. Social Information of India: Trends and Structure. Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation.

ISIS (Women's International Information and Communication Service). 1984. Women in Development: A Resource Guide for Organization and Action. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers.

Iyer, L. K. Anantha Krishna. 1981 [orig. 1909] The Tribes and Castes of Cochin. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications. 3 vols.

Jain, Devaki, Nalini Singh, and Malini Chand. 1982. India. In Women in Asia. Minority Rights Group Report No. 45. London.

Jeffery, Roger. 1988. The Politics of Health in India. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Jeffrey, Robin. 1976. The Decline of Nayar Dominance: Society and Politics in Travancore, 1847-1908. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc.

_____. 1978. Travancore: status, class and the growth of radical politics, 1860-1940 -- the temple-entry movement. In People, Princes and Paramount Power: Society and Politics in the Indian Princely States, ed. Robin Jeffrey, 136-69. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

_____. 1987. Culture of daily newspapers in India: how it's grown, what it means. Economic and Political Weekly
22(14):607-611.

_____. 1993. Politics, Women and Well Being: How Kerala Became 'A Model.' Delhi. Oxford University Press.

_____. 1994. Kerala's story [Review of Kerala: Radical Reform As Development in an Indian State]. Economic and Political Weekly 29(10):549.

Joshi, Barbara, ed., 1986. Untouchable! Voices of the Dalit Liberation Movement. London: Zed Books. Published for the Minority Rights Group.

Kannan, K. P. 1981. A people's science movement. Development Seeds of Change 1981(1):37-40.

Kannan, K. P. 1988. Of Rural Proletarians: Mobilization and Organization of Rural Workers in Southwest India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Kannan, K. P., and K. Pushpangadan. 1988. Agricultural stagnation in Kerala: an exploratory analysis. Economic and Political Weekly 23(39):A120-A128.

Kannan, K. P., K. R. Thankappan, V. Raman Kutty, and K. P. Aravindan. 1991. Health and Development in Rural Kerala. Trivandrum: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad.

Kaplan, Robert D. 1994. The coming anarchy: how scarcity, crime, overpopulation, tribalism, and disease are rapidly destroying the social fabric of our planet. The Atlantic Monthly 273(2):44-76.

Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad. 1991. Lead Kindly Light: Operation Illiteracy Eradication. A Report on the Intensive Campaign for Eradication of Illiteracy in Eranakulam. Thiruvananthapuram: KSSP.

Kozol, Jonathan. 1985. Illiterate America. Garden City: Anchor Press.

Krishnan, T. N. 1976. Demographic transition in Kerala: facts and factors. Economic and Political Weekly11(31-33):1203-1224.

_____. 1991. Wages, employment, and output in interrelated labour markets in an agrarian economy: a study of Kerala. Economic and Political Weekly 26(26):A82-A92.

Kumar, B. Gopalakrishna. 1989. Gender, differential mortality and development: the experience of Kerala. Cambridge Journal of Economics 13:517-539.

_____. 1993. Low mortality and high morbidity in Kerala reconsidered. Population and Development Review 19(1):103-121.

_____. 1993a Quality of life and nutritional status: a reconsideration of some puzzles from Kerala. In Development and Change: Essays in Honour of K. N. Raj, ed. Pranad Bardhan, Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, and T. N. Krishnan, 318-340. Bombay: Oxford University Press.

Kumar, Gopalakrishnan, and Frances Stewart. 1987. Tackling Malnutrition: What Can Targeted Nutritional Interventions Achieve? Centre for Development Studies. Working Paper No. 225. Trivandrum.

Kumar, Shubh K. 1979. Impact of Subsidized Rice on Food Consumption and Nutrition in Kerala. International Food Policy Research Institute, Research Report 5. Washington, D. C.

Kumar, S. Mohana. 1993. Literacy movement in Kerala: one step forward, two steps backwards. Economic and Political Weekly 28(41):2187-2191.

Kunakrishnan, K. 1991. Handwriting on the wall (literacy in Kerala). Far Eastern Economic Review 151(22):56, 30 May, 1991.

Kutty, V. Raman. 1989. Rationing medical care in Kerala: price and non-price mechanisms. Economic and Political Weekly 24(35-36):1991-1992.

Kuznets, Simon. 1955. Economic growth and income inequality. American Economic Review 45:1,3-6,17-26. Partly reprinted in Mitchell A. Seligson, ed., 1984, pp. 25-37.

Lappé, Frances Moore, and Rachel Schurman. 1988. The Missing Piece in the Population Puzzle. Institute for Food and Development Policy Development Report no. 4. San Francisco.

Lewis, John P. and Valeriana Kallab, eds. 1983. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World: Agenda 1983. New York: Praeger Publishers. Published for the Overseas Development Council.

Liddle, Joanna, and Rama Joshi. 1986. Daughters of Independence: Gender, Caste, and Class in India. London: Zed Press.

Lipton, Michael. 1977. Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

_____. 1988. The Poor and the Poorest: Some Interim Findings. The World Bank. Discussion Paper No. 25.
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Mahadevan, K. and M. Sumangala. 1987. Social Development, Cultural Change and Fertility Decline: A Study of Fertility Change in Kerala. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Mari Bhat, P. N., and S. Irudaya Rajan. 1990. Demographic transition in Kerala revisited. Economic and Political Weekly 25(35):1957-1980.

Mathew, Joseph. 1986. Ideology, Protest, and Social Mobility: Case Study of Mahars and Pulayas. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications.

Mathew, P. M. 1986. Women's industrial employment in Kerala, India. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 18(3):43-58.

Mencher, Joan. 1962. Changing familial roles among South Malabar Nayars. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 18:230-245.

_____. 1966. Namboodiri Brahmins of Kerala: an analysis of a traditional elite in Kerala. Journal of Asian and African Studies 1:183-96.

_____. 1966a. Kerala and Madras: A comparative study of ecology and social structure. Ethnology 5(2):135-171.

_____. 1974. The caste system upside down: or, the not so mysterious East. Current Anthropology 15:469-478.

_____. 1976. Land reform and socialism: The case of Kerala. In Aspects of Changing India: Studies in Honour of Prof. G. S. Ghurye, ed. S. Devadas Pillai.

_____. 1978. Agrarian relations in two rice regions of Kerala. Economic and Political Weekly 13(6-7):349-66.

_____. 1980. The lessons and non-lessons of Kerala. Economic and Political Weekly 15(41-43):1781-1802.

_____. 1980a. On being an untouchable in India: a materialist perspective. In Beyond the Myths of Culture, ed. Eric Ross, 261-294. New York: Academic Press.

_____. 1982. Agricultural labourers and poverty. Economic and Political Weekly 17(1-2):38-44.

_____. 1991. Agricultural labour and pesticides in rice regions of India: some health considerations. Economic and Political Weekly 26(39):2263-2268.

_____, and K. Saradamoni. 1982. Muddy feet, dirty hands: Rice production and female agricultural labour. Economic and Political Weekly 17(52):A149-A167.

Menon, A. Sreedhara. 1984. A Survey of Kerala History. Madras: S. Viswanathan.

Menon, Dilip M. 1994. Caste, Nationalism, and Communism in South India: Malabar, 1900-1948. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press.

Menon, V. Viswanatha. 1987. Budget Speech: Revised Budget 1987-88. Trivandrum: Government of Kerala.

_____. 1988. Budget Speech 1988-89. Trivandrum: Government of Kerala.

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Mies, Maria. 1980. Indian Women and Patriarchy: Conflicts and Dilemmas of Students and Working Women. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company.

_____. 1980a. Capitalist development and subsistence reproduction: rural women in India. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 12(1):2-14.

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_____. 1982. Female labor participation and female seclusion in rural India: a regional view. Economic Development and Cultural Change 30(4):777-794.

Miller, Roland E. 1976. Mappila Muslims of Kerala: A Study in Islamic Trends. Madras: Orient Longman Ltd.

Mohan, K. T. Ram. 1991. Understanding Keralam: the tragedy of radical scholarship. Monthly Review 43(7):18-31.

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Mosher, Arthur T. 1966. Getting Agriculture Moving. New York: Praeger.

_____. 1969. Creating a Progressive Rural Structure. New York: Agricultural Development Council.

Mukherjee, Chandan. 1979. Lorenz Ratios for Distribution of Rural Ownership and Operational Land Holdings, India, 1971-72. Centre for Development Studies. Working Paper No. 94. Trivandrum.

Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee. 1984. Silver Shackles: Women and Development in India. Oxford: Oxfam.

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Nag, Moni. 1989. Political awareness as a factor in accessibility of health services: a case study of rural Kerala and West Bengal. Economic and Political Weekly 24(8):417-426.

Nair, P. R. Gopinathan. 1974. Decline in birth rate in Kerala: a hypothesis about the inter-relationship between
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_____. 1979. Role of primary education in socioeconomic change: the Kerala case. In Kerala Economy Since Independence, ed. M. A. Oomen, 85-102. Delhi: Oxford.

_____. 1983. Educational Reforms in India: Universalisation of Primary Education in Kerala. Centre for Development Studies. Working Paper No. 181. Trivandrum.

_____, and D. Ajit. 1983. Parallel Colleges in Kerala: a Case Study of Their Structure in Terms of Enrollment Costs and Employment. Centre for Development Studies. Working Paper No. 156. Trivandrum.

Nair, R. Ramakrishnan. 1976. Social Structure and Political Development in Kerala. Trivandrum: St. Joseph's Press for The Kerala Academy of Political Science.

Namboodiripad, E. M. S. 1976. How I Became a Communist. Trivandrum: Chinta Publishers.

_____. [1967] 1984. Kerala Society and Politics: An Historical Survey. New Delhi: National Book Centre.

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_____. 1988. Marxist State Governments in India. London: Pinter Publishers.

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_____. 1980. Inter-regional variation in calorie intake. Economic and Political Weekly 15:1803-1814.

_____. 1992. High cost of medical care in Kerala: tentative hypothesis. Economic and Political Weekly 27(23):1179-1181.

_____, and C. R. Soman. 1984. Health Status of Kerala: Paradox of Economic Backwardness and Health Development. Trivandrum: Centre for Development Studies.

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Pillai, K. S. 1981. Fighting illiteracy in Kerala. International Journal of Adult Education (42):3-6.

_____. 1984. Adult education in India: the task ahead. International Journal of Adult Education 45(5):3-6.

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_____. 1981. Divided Poor: Study of a Kerala Village. Delhi: Ajanta Books.

_____. 1982. Women's status in changing agrarian relations: a Kerala experience. Economic and Political Weekly 17(5):155-62.

_____. 1983. Changing land relations and women: a case study of Palghat District, Kerala. In Women and Rural Transformation: Two Studies, ed. Rekha Mehra and K. Saradamoni, 33-171, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company.

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_____. 1983. A Development Monitoring Service at the Local Level. Volume II: Levels of Living and Poverty in Kerala. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Report No. 83.2.

_____. 1985. A Development Monitoring Service at the Local Level. Volume III: Monitoring Change in Kerala -  the First Five Years. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Report No. 85.7.

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_____. 1979. Caste, class and economic opportunity in Kerala: an empirical analysis. Economic and Political Weekly 14(7-8):475-480.

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_____. 1992. Economic Consequences of the Gulf Crisis: A Study of India with Special Reference to Kerala. New Delhi. Asian Regional Team for Employment Promotion, International Labour Organisation. Publication No. RAS/88/029.

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World Bank. 1993. World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health. New York. Oxford University Press.

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Videos About Kerala

All except Altar of Fire are 25 to 30 minutes

Altar of Fire. 1977. [A 1975 performance of an ancient Hindu Vedic ritual]. Robert Gardner and Frits Staal. Berkeley: University of California Extension Media Center. 45 minutes.

The Quiet Revolution: Kerala. 1994. [The 1990 Ernakulam District Total Literacy Programme in one village]. Available from The Rodale Institute, 611 Seigfriedale Rd., Kutztown, PA, 19530.

The following four videos are vailable with English soundtrack from: Centre for Development of Imaging Technology, Chitranjali Studio Complex, Thiurvallom, Thiruvananthapuram 695 027, Kerala, India, FAX [91-471] 644569 Code 17.

Declining Birth Rate: Lessons from Kerala.

Plotting the Riches [The People's Resource Mapping Programme].

Ruin of the Commons? [Destruction of fishing off Kerala's coast].

The Weeping Rice Bowl [Environmental destruction of Lake Vembanad and surrounding rice fields].