This video about the Ph.D thesis on the rise of Kammas has been making waves on social media. Her doctoral thesis explores the relation between dominant caste and territory in South India through a detailed ethnography of the Kammas of Andhra Pradesh, with an emphasis on their migration patterns and upward social mobility, from landed farmers to businessmen, industrialists and professionals. The aim of her work was to unveil the mechanisms of power and control that are used by the dominant castes to perpetuate their hegemony. Here is the Ph.D thesis paper by Dalel Benbabaali, which she read out in the video above - Dominant caste and territory in South India: The case of the Kammas of Andhra Pradesh In ...

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