Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar 1900-1948 (Cambridge South Asian Studies)

In 1957, Kerala became the first region in Asia to elect a communist government parliamentary procedure. Dilip Menon's book traces the social history of comunism in Malabar, the bastion of the movement, and looks at how the ideology was transformed into a doctrine of caste equality, as national strategies were reshaped by local circumstance and tinged by pragmatism.Dilip M. Menon is the author of 'Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India: Malabar 1900-1948 (Cambridge South Asian Studies)', published 1994 under ISBN 9780521418799 and ISBN 0521418798.