The Politics of South India 1920-1937

The Politics of South India 1920-1937

Author: Christopher John Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-12-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521052764

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The interwar years witnessed great changes in the political life of India, with the establishment of new governmental institutions, the emergence of political movements based on class, caste and ideology, and the rapid expansion of the nationalist campaign. This book looks at the complex of political changes during this crucial and formative period in the Madras Presidency, the largest but often the most neglected province of British India. Among the many strands of political life and behaviour which Dr Baker studies are the non-Brahman movement, peasant agitations, caste movements and the rise of the Indian National Congress to a position of undisputed primacy in the region. Making use of hitherto unresearched materials Dr Baker attempts the first overall study of the political process and the dynamics of political change in the province. The book may also be seen as a case-study of political change in a late-colonial society.


Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, 1863-1937

Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, 1863-1937

Author: Chandra Mallampalli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-31

Total Pages: 645

ISBN-13: 1134350244

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This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically, British rule in India did not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources, the book first explains how the Indian judiciary's 'official knowledge' isolated Christians from Indian notions of family, caste and nation. It then describes how different varieties and classes of Christians adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist perceptions of their identity. Within a climate of rising communal tension in India, this study finds immediate relevance.


Worship And Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case

Worship And Conflict Under Colonial Rule: A South Indian Case

Author: Arjun Appadurai

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780001160224

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The Author Has Developed An Integrated Anthropological Framework In This Ethno-Historical Case Study In Which He Interprets The Politics Of Worship In A Famous Sri Vaisnav Shrine. A Striking Example Of The Fruitful Interaction Between Anthropology And History, This Book Provides A Unique Glimpse Of The Cultural Profile Of Social Change In Modern India, And Is An Important Addition To The Comparative Study Of Colonialism.


A Colonial Economy in the Great Depression, Madras (1929-1937)

A Colonial Economy in the Great Depression, Madras (1929-1937)

Author: K. A. Manikumar

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9788125024569

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This book aims to give a complete description of the impact of the Great Depression on the Madras Presidency, by using the techniques of both a historian and an economist. Manikumar's multidisciplinary approach provides a fresh perspective on the political, economic and social conditions of the Presidency in the 1930s. The major areas covered are: Madras's economy before the Depression, particularly the state of the export-dependant agricultural sector; the rise of indebtedness among the peasants; the varied effects on industrial sectors; the economic policies of the colonial government, which worsened the degree of debt; and the social and political effects of the Depression, including the Indian National Congress's increased political influence.


Party System Change in South India

Party System Change in South India

Author: Andrew Wyatt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-16

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1135182027

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By applying the concept of political entrepreneurship to a detailed case study of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, this book demonstrates how party leaders can exercise their agency and drive party system change.


Agrarian Radicalism in South India

Agrarian Radicalism in South India

Author: Marshall M. Bouton

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1400857848

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The author finds that agrarian radicalism develops most readily in a way analogous to industrial class struggle: through the economic clash of homogeneous and polarized groups within the agrarian sector. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


Dalits in Modern India

Dalits in Modern India

Author: S. M. Michael

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2007-05-08

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780761935711

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This second, revised and enlarged edition looks back at the aspirations and struggle of the marginalised Dalit masses and looks forward to a new humanity based on equality, social justice and human dignity. Within the context of Dalit emancipation, it explores the social, economic and cultural content of Dalit transformation in modern India. These articles, by some of the foremost researchers in the field, are presented in four parts: Part I deals with the historical material on the origin and development of untouchability in Indian civilisation. Part II contests mainstream explanations and shows that the Dalit vision of Indian society is different from that of the upper castes. Part III offers a critique of the Sanskritic perspective of traditional Indian society, and fieldwork-based portraits of the Hinduisation of Adivasis in Gujarat, Dalit patriarchy in Maharashtra and Dalit power politics in Uttar Pradesh. Part IV concentrates on the economic condition of the Dalits.


Bonded Histories

Bonded Histories

Author: Gyan Prakash

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521526586

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An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.


The Pariah Problem

The Pariah Problem

Author: Rupa Viswanath

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-07-08

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0231537506

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Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"—with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries' vision of the Pariahs' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political–economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination.