Subject(s): Economic conditions -- Economic history -- Social conditions -- Gods and ancestors in development in Kerala, everyday and avant-grade contexts of modernism in Malayalam literature, from region to nation and beyond- allegories of power in Malayalam fiction, caste to sex- study on sexuality and formation of modern subject in Kerala, reform, law and gendered identity, development experience of colonial Kerala, coalition politics, social structure and social change, is Kerala model sustainable -- Sustainability of Kerala's development experience, social roots of Kerala's development debacle, social path to Kerala's health, Kerala model-prospects and problems