Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide
range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and
facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at
http://about.jstor.org/terms
Indian Political Science Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and
extend access to The Indian Journal of Political Science
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science
Vol. 64, No. 3-4, July-December, 2003
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 222
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 223
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 224
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 225
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 226
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 227
8
values. Kerala police is featured as a corrupt force in the global
tourist guide Lonely Planet and tourists are advised not to approach
policemen if they have a problem but to seek alternative routes
(quoted in Malayala Manor ama, 4 August, 2002).
Associational life in Kerala is most pronounced in areas
where the left had some support. The left strategy included
expansion of the party-base through mass and class organisations,
bargaining with government in an adversarial manner by these
organizations when the Congress-led coalition is in power, and
adversarial symbiosis when a left front government is formed.
There has been a decline in the vigour of traditional leftist
associations all over Kerala. The party, which used to provide
some degree of certainly to the lives of the people, no longer is
able to do it. Traditionally, all members protected interests of
individuals in various organizations through joint action. Individual
grievances are now seen as representing an individual problem
requiring greater reliance on the resources possessed by the
aggrieved party rather than the collective might of the organization
of which she is a manner. New forms of associational life centered
on particularistic loyalties are found to be undermining the
traditional class-based associations in recent years. The thickness
of associational life doe not lead to the development of generalized
trust or civic virtue as evidence from Kerala, the reason for which
can be gauged from the failure of the class based organizations
to cultivate or internalize civic values.
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 228
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 229
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 230
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 231
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 232
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 233
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 234
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 235
d. Brahamangalam
In 1915, a school was established at Brahamangalam
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 236
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 237
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 238
anganwadi. But the role of the political parties and the caste
organisations is found to be the strongest in this region. Of the
total households, 85.45 percent are Ezhavas. A libray with over
two hundred books existed in the area for five years under the
auspices of an Ezhava youth youth organization. The books and
the library no longer exist and the building has been converted
into a place of community prayers. During the participatory planning
phase, the Panchayat had supplied the same youth organization a
colour TV and a kiosk to house it. The TV was used for community
viewing. An average of fifty persons used to watch the programmes
every day. After a year, when the TV developed mechanical
complaints, the kiosk was closed down. Electricians are locally
available for repairing it. But the local people feel that repairing
it. But the local people feel that repairing the TV is the responsibility
of the Panchayat. This is the only area where the Ward Development
Committees are not functuioning. Same is the case of the NHGs
and SHGs. Two non-governmental organizations consisting of more
than a dozen people, of the local youth have recently started
99
functioning here. However, there are no horizontal linkages
between these organizations. The highest number of membership
in associations is three and the average is around one. In terms
of score value, the region accounted for the lowest level of
associational vibrancy. But the public in this region discusses
politics more often than the four other regions, using the teashops
and the general provision shops as the main venues. Its score was
the lowest in associational activity, are 28, which comes to 46.66
percent (Table 1). Interestingly, as Table 2 shows, Thuruthamma
is the only place where political parties scored better than all, the
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 239
Category of Regions
Institution
glam value
of
insti-
tutional
wise
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 240
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 241
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 242
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 243
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 244
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 245
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 246
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 247
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 248
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
Social Capital in Kerala 249
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
The Indian Journal of Political Science 250
This content downloaded from 203.200.225.155 on Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:33:47 UTC
All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms