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- Ashbery, John
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Hör du, fågel
- 1996
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Translation to Swedish of John Ashbery’s Can You Hear, Bird.
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- Ashbery, John
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Och stjärnorna glänste
- 1994
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- A Swedish translation of John Ashbery’s And the Stars Were Shining.
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- Ashbery, John
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Skuggtåg
- 1993
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Translation to Swedish of John Ashbery’s Shadow Train.
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- Cederlöf, Gunnel
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Bonds lost : subordination, conflict and mobilisation in rural south India c. 1900-1970
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This dissertation examines the transformation of rural social relations in the highlands of south India during a period of rapid agricultural change. Long before the expansion of commercial crops in agriculture, the landowning community of farmers and the landless agricultural labourers had been closely related to each other. During the economic change, the need of these labourers increased on the farms. As the labourers were also leather workers, their skills were indispensable to reassure the farmers of the increasingly necessary irrigation.By a combination of a variety of government, mission and oral sources, the thesis shows that, between 1880s and 1930s, competition for labour scaled up in the region and agricultural labourers were increasingly tied by advance payments to work for a farmer. This is known as the pannai or farm system and included both duties and rights for the labourers. On account of this, economic expansion gained support and social control was upheld. However, even after preconditions had been made available to achieve a more profitable farming by replacing permanent by casual labourers a substantial, permanent labour force was still employed on the farms. In the late 1930s and 1940s, kinship-wise mobilisation among the Madhari labourers to convert to Christianity was met by strong and sometimes violent resistance. Every movement they made to break with Goundar authority was realised as a threat. Thus, during a decade, social rationality was given priority over economic rationality by the farmers. A severe six-year long drought contributed to end this situation. The farmers finally electrified irrigation and dismissed the major part of their permanent labour force. Thus, the labourers not only gained free mobility but simultaneously lost the rights and security that had been attached to their bonds.
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