The Chingleput, Late Madras, District
Author: Madras (India : Presidency)
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Madras (India : Presidency)
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Madras (India : Presidency)
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Madras
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781018006123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Eugene F. Irschick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1994-04-05
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0520084055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. For centuries, agricultural life in South India was seminomadic. But when the British took dominion, they sought to stabilize the region by inventing a Tamil "golden age" of sedentary, prosperous villages. Irschick shows that this construction resulted not from overt British manipulation but from an intricate cross-pollination of both European and native ideas. He argues that the Tamil played a critical role in constructing their past and thus shaping their future. And British administrators adapted local customs to their own uses.
Author: Madras (India : State)
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 1052
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kanakalatha Mukund
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9788125028000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did the British colonial administration view the Tamil natives? How did the natives, in turn, view the colonial power brokers? Underscoring a transactional rather than one-way reality of colonial politics, The View from Below is a balancing act of scholarship. Kanakalatha Mukund considers the 'attitudes' and 'responses' as dialogic, whereby the colonial state and indigenous society are locked in a fierce but subtle combat for attention and dominance in the Madras region. The Tamil institution upon which Mukund focuses her study for the most part is the temple. Moving further on from this politically crucial and socially focal site, the study covers a number of other related phenomena: the staging of sectarian and caste conflicts aimed to seize the control of the temples; the new social leadership and patterns of patronage; the construction of identity by aspiring elite groups of both parties; and the folk representations of Poligar rebellions. This book will be useful to historians, anthropologists and specialists on South India, and those interested in the history of Madras.
Author: Madras (India : State)
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 918
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