K. N. Sunandan, "Caste, Knowledge, and Power: Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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The Transformation of Ashri Community
Earlier, ashri was a local cost. And there is in colonial record, they are part of these five caste groups,. In common, what they call say, gatastam and all called ikammala which means that five handicrafts group. But I don't see that anyway, people associating with other these four groups, tapanders or other. That is not happening in Kerala, at least in Malabara. You can't see that in 19th century. The second is this idea of Vishogarma. This icon kind of nationalization of caste. It is happening through literature earlier, on the sociological literature on caste, one to nationalize caste.
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