TIRUCHIRAPALLI CITY ADMINISTRATION (1950 – 1980) A STUDY
TIRUCHIRAPALLI CITY ADMINISTRATION (1950 – 1980) A STUDY

Author: Dr. S. Sumathikamalam

Publisher: Lulu Publication

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 171626877X

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“Local Institutions constitute the strength of free Nations a Nations may establish a system of free Governments but without. Municipal institutions, it cannot have the Spirit of liberty” - Detocqueville Local Government bodies have in our republican system a special importance as they are not only the field agencies for execution in their respective area of national programmes but they are also the primary units of democratic government. Their unique practical significance has attracted attention at academic, administrative and political levels. Local Government has been defined in various ways but the simplest definition is a Government at public activities within its territory. The term “Local Government” implies that it is concerned with localities. The system of local Government is for every nation as part of its governmental or constitutional structure, irrespective of its dominant political philosophy and the form of national government. Local government is an integral part of the four tiers in which most of the governments of modern times function.

Encounters on the Opposite Coast: The Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century
Encounters on the Opposite Coast: The Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Markus Vink

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 9004272623

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In Encounters of the Opposite Coast Markus Vink provides a narrative of the first half century of cross-cultural interaction between the Dutch East India Company (VOC), one of the great northern European chartered companies, and Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in southeast India (c. 1645-1690). A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex relationship fraught with tensions, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the 'age of contained conflict'. Drawing extensively on archival materials, Markus Vink covers a topic neglected by both Company historians and their Indian counterparts and sheds important light on a 'black hole in South Indian history'.