K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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The Tendency to Avoid Certain Practices Which Cannot Be Justified in Some Sense
MSS Pandyan alerts us to write that certain apocas, grammatical practices are recorded as heritage or culture. And being talking about caste without naming caste, right? So I see that also happening. But there is a tendency which I say, okay, so certain practices, you should not continue. You know, like the major way if you look Sathi for my example, Sathi was considered not, you know, a good practice. Similarly, some do small daily practices, there was a scrutiny of what is superstition, what is scientific, etc.
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