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Socio-cultural Processes and Livelihood Patterns at Tirurangadi - CDS

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Mamburam is rapidly undergoing change. The paddy fields visible to any traveler in the<br />

N<strong>at</strong>ional highway crossing the p<strong>at</strong>am, two decades before have disappeared, <strong>and</strong> we see<br />

coconut <strong>and</strong> plantain plant<strong>at</strong>ions instead. Even the remaining grain fields are rarely<br />

cultiv<strong>at</strong>ed.<br />

As an illustr<strong>at</strong>ion we reproduce below the transform<strong>at</strong>ion observed in the fields in<br />

Munniyur Panchay<strong>at</strong>:

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