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The volume is felicitate Prof. Ravula Soma Reddy, by two of his Ekalavya students of Prof. Ravula. Soma Reddy. During his career in the Dept. of History, Ormania University, Hyderabad, he has rendered yeomen service both as an academician, researcher, teacher as well as an administrator. The papers in this Volume written by distinguished scholars highlight the warmth of affection they hold towards Prof. Ravula Soma Reddy. A long cherished wish of the Editors was ...
This volume deals with the interrelationship between caste system, land control, and domination in modern Andhra. It seeks to examine the social origins, material basis and crystallization of the dominant upper castes in a long term historical and sociological perspective. Taking caste as the central problematic of historiography this study views caste as a dynamic, historically evolved structure of power relations of domination and subordination. The historical ...
An introduction is the first and the last word in any book. Some busy scholars who do not have time and patience, and some lazy scholars who find it tiring to plod through the detailed empirical analysis, often content themselves by confining to the reading of introduction. Anyway, an introduction is no substitute for a book, and hence, it is not recommended as the first and the last word for an integral scholar. These essays deal with the evolution of ...