Further reading
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BOOKS
Abraham, Abu. The Penguin book of Indian cartoons. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1988.
Aravindan, K.P. and R.V.G. Menon (eds.). A snapshot of Kerala: life and thoughts of Malayalee people. Thrissur: Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad, 2010.
Centre for Development Studies. Human development report – Kerala 2005. Trivandrum: State Planning Board, Government of Kerala, 2006.
Children’s Book Trust. Shankar’s Weekly souvenir. New Delhi: CBT, 1975.
Dasan, M. et.al. The Oxford India anthology of Malayalam dalit writing. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Devika, J. and Binitha V. Thampi. New lamps for old? Gender paradoxes of political decentralization in Kerala. New Delhi: Zubaan, 2012.
Isaac, Thomas T.M. and Richard W. Franke. Local democracy and development: the Kerala people’s campaign for decentralized planning. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., Maryland, USA, 2002.
Jacob, T.G. Wayanad: misery in an emerald bowl. Mumbai: Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, 2006.
Joseph. K.V. Keralites on the move – a historical study of migration from Kerala. Delhi: Shipra, 2006.
Kutty, P.K.S. Years of laughter: reminiscences of a cartoonist. Kolkata: Thema, 2009.
Lukose, Ritty A. Liberalization’s children: gender, youth, and consumer citizenship in globalizing India. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2010.
Mani, Sunil, Anjini Kochar and Arun M. Kumar (eds.). Kerala’s economy: crouching tiger, sacred cows. Kottayam: DC Books, 2006.
Meena, T. Pillai. Women in Malayalam cinema: naturalising gender hierarchies. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2010.
Nilayangode, Devaki. Antharjanam: memoirs of a Namboodiri woman (Tr. Radhika P. Menon). Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Oommen, M.A. (ed.). Rethinking development: Kerala’s development experience. New Delhi: Institute of Social Studies, 1999.
Osella, Filippo and Caroline Osella. Social mobility in Kerala: modernity and identity in conflict. London: Pluto Press, 2000.
Ramakrishnan, E.V. Making it new: modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi poetry (chapter ix). Shimla: IIAS, 1995.
Raman, K. Ravi (ed.). Development, democracy and the state: critiquing Kerala model of development. New York and London: Routledge, 2010.
Raman, K. Ravi. Global capital and peripheral labour: the history and political economy of plantation workers in India. New York and London: Routledge, 2010.
Ramanathaiyer, Sundar and Nancy Hudson-Rodd (eds.). Tragic idiom, O.V. Vijayan’s cartoons and notes on India. Kottayam: D.C. Books, 2006.
Rammohan, K.T. Tales of rice: Kuttanad, Southwest India. Thiruvananthapuram: Centre for Development Studies, 2005.
Satchidanandan, K. Indian literature: positions and propositions. Delhi: Pencraft International, 1999.
Satchidanandan, K. Readings: Indian literature and beyond. Delhi: Yash Publications, 2009.
Shankar, Alaka. Shankar. New Delhi: Children’s Book Trust, 1984.
Sowmya Dechamma C.C. and Elavarthi Sathya Prakash (eds.). Cinemas of south India: culture, resistance, and ideology. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Tharamangalam, Joseph (ed.). Kerala: The paradoxes of pubic action and development. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006.
Vijayan, O.V. A cartoonist remembers. New Delhi: Rupa & Co., 2002.
Zachariah, K.C. and Irudaya S. Rajan. Migration and development: the Kerala experience. New Delhi: Daanish Books, 2009.
Zachariah, K.C., K.P. Kannan and Irudaya Rajan (eds.). Kerala’s Gulf connection. CDS studies in international labour migration. Trivandrum: Centre for Development Studies, 2002.
ARTICLES
Balagopal, C. Learning from the successful: three case studies of successful entrepreneurship from Kerala, in Sunil Mani, Anjini Kochar and Arun M. Kumar (eds.), Kerala’s economy: crouching tiger, sacred cows. Kottayam: DC Books, pp. 210-220.
Bijoy, C.R. and K. Ravi Raman. ‘Muthanga: the real story – adivasi movement to recover land. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 17 May 2003.
Bindu Menon, M. Romancing history and historicizing romance, ‘Seminar’ 598: June 2009.
Cyriac, Shruti, Sam Vishishta, and Naomi Jacob. The PDS system in Kerala: a review. Working Paper No. 204. CCS, London School of Economics, 2008.
George, Ashish. Good health at low cost: how good and how low? ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 18 June 2005.
Harilal, M.S. Commercialising traditional medicine: ayurvedic manufacturing in Kerala. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 44(16): 2009.
Heller, Patrick. ‘Kerala: deepening a radical social democracy’, in Sandbrook, Richard, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller and Judith Teichman (eds.), Social democracy in the global periphery: origins, challenges, prospects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
Isaac, Thomas T.M. and P.K. Michael Tharakan. Towards a new agenda. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 5-12 August 1995.
Kannan, K.P. Agricultural development in an emerging non-agrarian regional economy: Kerala’s challenges. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 26 February 2011.
Kannan, K.P. Basic socio-economic security in rural India and China: a comparative assessment of selected villages. ‘Indian Journal of Human Development’ 3(2): July-December 2009.
Kannan, K.P. From human development to economic growth: Kerala’s turnaround in growth powered by human development, remittances, and reform, in A. Vaidyanathan, and K.L. Krishna (eds.), Institutions and markets in India’s development: essays for K.N. Raj. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Kannan, K.P. People’s planning, Kerala’s dilemma. ‘Seminar’: January 2000.
Kannan, K.P. Political economy of labour and development in Kerala. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 26 December 1998.
Kumar, Udaya. Seeing and reading: the early Malayalam novel and some questions of visibility, in Meenkshi Mukherjee (ed.), Early novels in India, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2002.
Kumar, Udaya. Self, body and inner sense: some reflections on Sree Narayana Guru and Kumaran Asan. ‘Studies in History’ 13(2): July-December 1997.
Mani, Sunil. Economic liberalisation and the industrial sector. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 30(21): 1995.
Mannathukkaren, Nissim. Redistribution and recognition: land reforms in Kerala and the limits of culturalism. ‘Journal of Peasant Studies’ 38(2): 2011.
Mannathukkaren, Nissim. The ‘poverty’ of political society: Partha Chatterjee and the people’s plan campaign in Kerala, India. ‘Third World Quarterly’ 31(2): 2010.
Menon, Dilip. A local cosmopolitan: Kesari Balakrishna Pillai and the invention of Europe for Kerala, in Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra (eds.), Cosmopolitan thought zones. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Osella, Filippo and Caroline Osella. The return of king Mahabali: the politics of morality in Kerala, in C.J. Fuller and Veronique Benei (eds.), The everyday state and society in modern India. New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2009.
Raman, K. Ravi. Breaking new ground: the adivasi land struggle in Kerala. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’: 9 March 2002.
Raman, K. Ravi. Corporate violence, political ecology and the marginalised: cola war in Plachimada. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 25: 2005.
Raman, K. Ravi. Currents and eddies: India-Middle East migration processes. ‘Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society’ 5(2): 2012.
Raman, K. Ravi. Muthanga: a spark of hope, social analysis. ‘The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice’ 48(1): 2004; subsequently in B. Kapferer (ed.), State, sovereignty, war. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004.
Raman, K. Ravi. Plachimada resistance: a postdevelopment social Movement metaphor? in Aram Ziai (ed), Post-development theory and practice, New York and London: Routledge,. 2007.
Raman, K. Ravi. Transverse solidarity: water, power and resistance. Review of Radical Political Economics 42(2): 2010.
Ramakrishnan, E.V. Refiguring region and resistance: some contexts from Malayalam literature, in E.V. Ramakrishnan, Locating Indian literature: texts, traditions, translations. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2011.
Rammohan, K.T. Assessing reassessment of Kerala model. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 33(15): 8-14 April 2000.
Rammohan, K.T. Caste and landlessness in Kerala: signals from Chengara. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 43(37): 13-19 September 2008.
Rammohan, K.T. Caste, public action and the Kerala model, in K. Ravi Raman (ed.), Development, democracy and the state: critiquing Kerala model of development. London: Routledge, 2010.
Rammohan, K.T. Coir in India: history of technology, in Helaine Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology and medicine in non-western cultures. Vol. 1 (Web and print editions). Verlag, 2008.
Rammohan, K.T. Commodity chains, upgrading, and labour: a view from the coir yarn processing sites of southern India. ‘Indian Journal of Labour Economics’ 47(3): 2004.
Rammohan, K.T. Drawing the absences, erasing the stereotypes: Bara Bhaskaran’s visual history of Kerala. [Review of Bara Bhaskaran’s graphic travelogue.] ‘Tapasam: a quarterly journal of Kerala studies in Malayalam-English’ 5(1-4): 2009.
Rammohan, K.T. Economic man, the fourth estate and CPI(M) in Kerala. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 41(34): 26 August-1 September 2006.
Rammohan, K.T. LaVA: art, economy, pedagogy. [Review of installation by Bose Krishnamachari.] ‘Frontier’ 39(35): 18-24 March 2006.
Rammohan, K.T. Understanding Keralam: the tragedy of radical scholarship. ‘Monthly Review’ (New York) 43(7): December 1991.
Reghu, J. Overcoming Narayan Guru, in Ajay S. Sekhar, Sahodaran Ayyappan. Calicut: Other Books, 2012.
Sreekumar, T.T. and Govindan Parayil. Interrogating development: new social movements, democracy, and indigenous people’s struggles in Kerala, in The Paradoxes of Public Action and Development. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006.
Sreekumar, T.T. and Govindan Parayil. Contention and contradictions of tourism as development option: the case of Kerala, India. ‘Third World Quarterly’ 23(3): 2002.
Subrahmanian K.K. and P. Mohanan Pillai. Liberalisation and small industry: need for new growth strategy in Kerala. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 29(33): 1994.
Tharamangalam, Joseph. Human development as transformative practice: lessons from Kerala and Cuba. ‘Critical Asian Studie’ 42(3): 2010.
Tharamangalam, Joseph. Is food insecurity in Kerala a myth? ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ 14 May
2011.Thomas, Jayan J.
Kerala’s industrial backwardness: a case of path dependence in industrialization? ‘World Development’ (Elsevier) 33(5): 2005.![]()