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Article: Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India.
- Article from:
- Journal of Development Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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Siva and Her Sisters is a stimulating and ambitious study of the relationship of caste, class and gender in a village in Tamil Nadu, India. This is a rich rice growing area undergoing considerable economic differentiation as a result of legislation, mechanisation, cash cropping and changes in labour relations. The outcome is land concentration, proletarianisation, pauperisation, male underemployment and a widespread dependence on the labour of women and girls. Concurrently the limited availability of education and salaried 'urban' jobs has created differentiation amongst caste Hindus and, to a lesser extent, 'untouchables'. However, it is not with economics that Kapadia ...
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