In memory of my father Faridun H. Kapadia Amicus aeternus

Studies in the Ethnograpbic Imagination

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Published in 1995 in the United States of America by Westview Press, Inc., 5500 Central Avenue, Boulder, Colorado 80301-2877, and in the United Kingdom by Westview Press, 12 Hid's Copse Road, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kapadia, Karin.

Siva and her sisters: gender, caste, and class in rural South India/ Karin Kapadia

p. cm. -- (Studies in ethnographic imagination) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8133-8158-4 -- ISBN 0-8133-3491-8 (pbk.) 1. Caste -- India, South. 2. Women -- India, South -- Social conditions. 3. Social classes -- India, South. I. Title.

II. Series HT720.K2957 1995 305.4'0954 -- dc2O 94-38588 CIP

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