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Plantation Crisis explores the collapse of the plantation system in India, and the profound impacts this has had on the Dalit workers who have lived there for generations.

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'Jayaseelan Raj's book immensely contributes to the anthropological studies on caste and labour, the ethnography of development in Kerala, and methodological innovations of studying 'one's own community' and the nuances and difficulties of being a 'native anthropologist' (p. xv). The ethnographical examples in the book could prompt the reader to interrogate the rhetoric of egalitarian Kerala.' Contributions to Indian Sociology

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Jayaseelan Raj is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, India, and Fellow in the GRNPP project at the Department of Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He was recently awarded the New India Foundation Fellowship to write a book on Dalits and State in India. He is co-author of Ground Down by Growth (Pluto Press 2017 and Oxford University Press 2018).

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