Nāgādhyakshaçaritha: Elephant–mahout relationships in two communities of southern India.

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Co-Authored with Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan, Composing Worlds with Elephants: Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Eds. Láine N, Rahmat K and Kiel P). IRD Editions, Montpellier, France, pp. 67-81.
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In modern India, beginning from their role as war animals, domesticated elephants have come a long way, contributing in various ways to the socioeconomic development and public life of different communities across the Indian subcontinent. In this paper, we briefly trace the unique history of mahoutry in Kerala and discuss the unique nature of this interspecies relationship in two communities, the Malayalis of Kerala and the Malasar of the Anamalai hills in the Western Ghats mountains, reflecting on the widely differing nature of the husbandry practices that have traditionally forged elephant–human relations across southern India.

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