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The Malabar model: mapping economies across the Gulf of Mannar

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The Malabar model: mapping economies across the Gulf of Mannar

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Marxists commanding a capitalist economy, sluggish growth supporting precocious human development, and rentiers relying on Gulf remittances. No, this isn’t Lanka. It’s Kerala, as sketched-out by Tirthankar Roy and K. Ravi Raman in their new economic history of Kerala.

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