I can therefore do no more here than to name some of my debts, with the hope that those I name and fail to name may find some trace of their counsel in the text that follows. Were I to try and chart out the many entangled ways in which every word and phrase of this book has been born of the relations I have enjoyed in the years of its writing, I would quickly face the conundrum met by Jorge Luis Borges’s mythical cartographer: a map whose quest for accurate witness would lead it to surpass in size the very thing that it was mapping. Seeking to convey my gratitude to those who have made this book possible, I find myself confronted by a debt beyond measure. The Tamil Tirukkuhral suggests that the aid of those who give freely- without weighing returns-is greater than the sea in the span of its goodness. ‘‘Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass’’ On the Sympathies of an Aqueous Self 181 Epilogue 221 Notes 241 Glossary 283 Bibliography 289 Index 309 ‘‘Millets Sown Yield Millets, Evil Sown Yields Evil’’ On the Moral Returns of Agrarian Toil 141 ‘‘The Life of the Thief Leaves the Belly Always Boiling’’ On the Nature and Restraint of the Criminal Animal 101 ‘‘What Remains of the Harvest When the Fence Grazes the Crop?’’ On the Proper Violence of Agrarian Citizenship 65 ‘‘A Rough Spade for a Rugged Landscape’’ On Savage Selves and More Civil Places 31 attributed to the tamil poet kampar,Īcknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration xv Valiant kings of unflagging grace and ceaseless tribute remain resplendent, the scales of merchants stay in balance, the Brahmins do not forget the Vedas, and righteousness does not falter for a single day, all due to the steadily sprouting nature of the paddy fields of those who do not mistake the proper way of the world. To my parents and grandparents- for we grew in their shade, v¯ahlai afti v¯ahlai. Earlier versions of parts of chapter 4 originally appeared in ‘‘Devoted to Development: Moral Progress, Ethical Work, and Divine Favor in South India,’’ Anthropological Theory 8, no. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.Įarlier versions of parts of chapter 2 originally appeared in ‘‘Securing the Rural Citizen: The Anti-Kallar Movement of 1896,’’ Indian Economic and Social History Review 42, no. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper $ Designed by Katy Clove Typeset in Minion by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. ∫ 2009 Duke University Press All rights reserved. "Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass": On the Sympathies of an Aqueous SelfĬrooked Stalks Cultivating Virtue in South Indiaĭuke university press durham and london 2009 "Millets Sown Yield Millets, Evil Sown Yields Evil": On the Moral Returns of Agrarian Toilĥ. "The Life of the Thief Leaves the Belly Always Boiling": On the Nature and Restraint of the Criminal AnimalĤ. "What Remains of the Harvest When the Fence Grazes the Crop?": On the Proper Violence of Agrarian Citizenshipģ. "A Rough Spade for a Rugged Landscape": On Savage Selves and More Civil PlacesĢ.
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