Eroding Community Norms and Tank Irrigation under State Entitlements

Kulbhushan Balooni () and Vineetha Menon ()
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Kulbhushan Balooni: Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Vineetha Menon: Kannur University, Kerala

No 323, Working papers from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Abstract: Drawing insights from a case study of an agrarian tribal community—the Kurichiyan—from South India, we find that tank irrigation,which wasoncesustained by strong community norms, a kinship organizationthat upheld individual subsistence entitlements from jointly held private property and the tribal community’sunderstandings of local social ecology,isnow on the wane. The state entitlements channelled through decentralized development interventionsthat promote individual citizen’s entitlements have unintendedly undermined community norms and tank irrigation.

Keywords: Decentralized development initiatives; Individual citizen’sentitlements; Social transformations; Ecological wisdom; Livelihood; Sustainability of tank irrigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2019-03
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