Author: Aiyappan, Ayinipalli [1905-1988]
Title: Social Revolution in a Kerala Village : A Study in Culture Change
Description: Bombay, Asia Publishing House, (1965). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, x,183,(7)pp.. 7pp photoplates. Some rubbing. Good. ¶ Sociological study of the Iravas of Mayur village, Malabar, Kerala. Contents: The Village as a Whole: The Field, Methods & Problems; The Village Setting; Aspects of Economic Life; Land Tenure; Social Change in General; Communication, Beliefs & Health; Iravas & Cultural Change: The Iravas, an Untouchable Caste; Reduction of Ritual Social Distance; Irava Leadership in the State and in Mayur; Prohibition; Iravas of Mayur on the Frontiers of Politics; A Resume: The Future; Appendix; Character of the Malabar People According to a Dutch Official.

Keywords: Indian Social Anthropology, Irava Ethnology, Malabar Ethnography, Kerala, India South Asia, Caste Castes, Rural Sociology, Dalit Dalits, Mayur, Malabar