Download or read book Temple Entry Politics in Colonial Tamil Nadu written by G. Rengaraju and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The View from Below written by Kanakalatha Mukund and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Religion Under Bureaucracy India Edition written by Franklin A Presler and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion under Bureaucracy is an innovative study of religion and politics in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu which focuses on the relationship between the state and the central religious institution of the area, the Hindu temple. Religion, politics, economy and culture intersect in the temple and Tamil Nadu has 52,000 in all, many richly endowed with land and prominent locally as sources of patronage and economic and political power. Dr Presley examines the institutional challenge that Hindu temples have presented to the developing South Indian state over the last century and a half and the ways in which a government publicly committed to non-intervention in religious matters has come to involve itself deeply in temple life - establishing a presence in temple management, regulating the use of the temple's material and symbolic resources and, beyond this, seeking to control many details of Hindu organisation, economy and worship.
Download or read book Temple Entry Movement in Tamil Nadu written by S. Subramania Pillai and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion State and Social Policy written by S. Selvam and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Study Examines The Consequences Of State Intervention In The Religious Arena Especially The Brahmanical Temples.
Download or read book WOMEN LEADERSHIP IN TAMILNADU AD 1917 AD 1975 written by Lt.Dr.P.Karpagavalli and published by Ashok Yakkaldevi. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated at the south-eastern extremity of the Indian Peninsula, Tamil Nadu is bounded on the north by the State of Karnataka and the State of Andhra Pradesh, on the south by the Indian Ocean, on the east by the Bay of Bengal and on the west by the State of Kerala. It has a coast line of 620 miles and a land boundary of 750 miles. With an area of 129, 900.6 square kilometers, it is the eleventh State in area forming 4.08 per cent of the Union areas.[1] At the beginning of the twentieth century, Madras Presidency formed one of the most extensive of British territories in India. It stretched from Cape Comorian, the southern top of the Indian Peninsula, halfway up the east coast of Bengal.[2]Tamil region, the homeland of the Tamils, occupies the southern-most region of the erstwhile Madras Presidency.[3]The Tamil districts of the Presidency were Chingleput, North Arcot, South Arcot, Salem, Coimbatore, Nilgiris, Trichinoply, Tanjore, Madurai, Ramnad and Tinnevelly.[4] When reorganization of the States was made in 1956, regional adjustments were done and the State of Madras was created on November 1, 1956, as a lingual state with Tamil as its language.
Download or read book FACETS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY written by M. Thilakavathy and published by MJP Publisher. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book “Facets of Contemporary History”is a selection of research papers, presented in the International Conference on Contemporary History which was held on 30th and 31st January 2015. This conference was organized by the Department of History, Tourism and Travel Management, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai. It gives us great pleasure to put together a selection of the papers for the public in the form of a book in the interest of research. Contemporary History refers to the history of the immediate past or that which can be expected to remain in living memory. While there are areas of history which have branched off from contemporary history such as social history and economic history this conference took a very broad look at contemporary events from not just a historical but also a social science perspective. This Book contains 6 Sections namely Political History, Socio-Cultural History, Gender, Economic History, Environment and Tourism. We would like to place on record the Management of the college for the moral and financial support extended in the conduct of the Conference and in the production of the book. Thanks are due to our respected Chairman of the Trust Board, Mr. V.M.Muralidharan for all his support and encouragement. Heartfelt thanks are due to Prof.Dr.Karu. Nagarajan Member Secretary, TAMIL NADU STATE COUNCIL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION for their generous financial Assistance towards the conduct of the Conference. We would be failing in our duty if we do not thank the faculty of the Department of History, Tourism and Travel Management for their support and encouragement in the conduct of the Conference.
Download or read book Nandanar s Children written by Raj Sekhar Basu and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of this book is built around the historical experiences of the Paraiyars of Tamil Nadu. The author traces the transformation of the Paraiyars from an ‘untouchable’ and socially despised community to one that came to acquire prominence in the political scene of Tamil Nadu, especially in early 20th century. Through this framework, the book studies a number of issues: subaltern history, colonial ethnography, agrarian systems, agrarian bondage, land legislations, and the interventions by missionaries and social and political organizations.
Download or read book Politics and Cosmopolitanism in a Global Age written by Sonika Gupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique reconceptualization of cosmopolitanism. It examines several themes that inform politics in a globalized era, including global governance, international law, citizenship, constitutionalism, community, domesticity, territory, sovereignty, and nationalism. The volume explores the specific philosophical and institutional challenges in constructing a cosmopolitan political community beyond the nation state. It reorients and decolonizes the boundaries of ‘cosmopolitanism’ and questions the contemporary discourse to posit inclusive alternatives. Presenting rich and diverse perspectives from across the world, the volume will interest scholars and students of politics and international relations, political theory, public policy, ethics, and philosophy.
Download or read book The Light of Knowledge written by Francis Cody and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right. The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.
Download or read book The Indian National Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian Political System written by Bidyut Chakrabarty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the distinct structural characteristics of Indian politics and unearths significant sociopolitical and economic processes which are critical to the political articulation of governance in the country. It reflects on the foundational values of Indian polity, the emergence of the nation post-colonialism, the structural fluidity of federalism in India, and the changing nature of the planning process in the country. The book also studies the electoral processes, social movements, party system, local and state governance. Apart from analyzing corruption and public grievance systems, the volume also probes into significant issues in Indian politics. This book will be useful to the students, researchers and faculty working in the field of political science, public administration, political sociology, political economy and post-colonial contemporary Indian politics in particular. It will also be an invaluable and interesting reading for those interested in South Asian studies.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume II written by Shannon Holzer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Palgrave Handbook of Religion and State Volume II: Global Perpectives addresses issues of Religion and State from a multitude of disciplines. The volume begins with the philosophical discussion of perennial issues that have to do with the origin and nature of rights. One question centers on the right to use one’s religious beliefs to enact laws. This discussion alone sets this handbook apart from other handbooks of its type. While addressing these perennial questions, this volume includes authors who interact with the work of John Rawls, Hobbes, Rousseau, and a host of contemporary philosophers. The subsequent sections address the American Constitutional Experiment, religion, state, and law in the Americas.
Download or read book Modern Indian Political Thought written by Bidyut Chakrabarty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an unconventional articulation of the political thinking in India in a refreshingly creative manner in more than one way. Empirically, the book becomes innovative by providing an analytically more grasping contextual interpretation of Indian political thought that evolved during the nationalist struggle against colonialism. Insightfully, it attempts to unearth the hitherto unexplored yet vital subaltern strands of political thinking in India as manifested through the mode of numerous significant socio-economic movements operating side by side and sometimes as part of the mainstream nationalist movement. This book articulates the main currents of Indian political thought by locating the text and themes of the thinkers within the socio-economic and politico-cultural contexts in which such ideas were conceptualised and articulated. The book also tries to analytically grasp the influences of the various British constitutional devices that appeared as the responses of the colonial government to redress the genuine socio-economic grievances of the various sections of Indian society. The book breaks new ground in not only articulating the main currents of Indian political thought in an analytically more sound approach of context-driven discussion but also provokes new research in the field by charting a new course in grasping and articulating the political thought in India. This volume will be useful to the students, researchers and faculty working in the fields of political science, political sociology, political economy and post-colonial contemporary Indian politics in particular. It will also be an invaluable and interesting reading for those interested in South Asian studies.
Download or read book INDIA S FREEDOM MOVEMENT 1857 1947 REVISION NOTES ARORA IAS for UPSC IAS STATE PCS CTET PET POLICE EPFO CDS NDA NET JRF DEFENCE SSC COLLEGE SCHOOL ETC EXAM written by TEAM ARORA IAS and published by Arora IAS . This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INDEX CHAPTER 1 : The Great Mutiny of 1857 CHAPTER 2 : Indigenous Revolts and Tribal Insurrections CHAPTER 3 : Peasant Revolts and Uprisings Post-1857 CHAPTER 4 : The Formation of the Congress: Debunking the Myths CHAPTER 5 : The True Story Behind the Formation of the Indian National Congress CHAPTER 6 : Socio-Religious Reforms: Catalysts of the National Awakening CHAPTER 7 : An Economic Analysis of Colonial Exploitation CHAPTER 8 : Advocating for Press Freedom: A Historical Perspective CHAPTER 9 : The Use of Propaganda within Legislative Bodies CHAPTER 10 : The Swadeshi Movement: Unveiling the Spirit of Nationalism (1903-1908) CHAPTER 11 : Congressional Fissure and the Emergence of Revolutionary Violence CHAPTER 12 : World War I and the Ghadar Movement: Catalysts for Indian Nationalism CHAPTER 13 : The Home Rule Movement and Its Aftermath CHAPTER 14 : Gandhiji's Formative Years and Activism Beginnings CHAPTER 15 : Gandhi's Formative Years and Early Activism CHAPTER 16 : Rural Uprisings and Nationalism in the 1920s CHAPTER 17 : Indian Labor Movement and the Nationalist Struggle CHAPTER 18 : Activism for Gurdwara Reform and Temple Access CHAPTER 19 : Era of Stagnation: Swarajists, Status Quo Advocates, and Gandhi's Influence CHAPTER 20 : Bhagat Singh, Surya Sen, and Revolutionary Activism CHAPTER 21 : Rising Tensions: 1927-29 CHAPTER 22 : Civil Disobedience Movement CHAPTER 23 : Journey from Karachi to Wardha: 1932-34 CHAPTER 24 : The Emergence of Left-Wing Movements CHAPTER 25 : Strategic Discussions: 1935-37 CHAPTER 26 : Twenty-Eight Months of Congress Governance CHAPTER 27 : Rural Uprisings During the 1930s and 1940s CHAPTER 28 : The Independence Movement in Princely States CHAPTER 29 : Indian Industrialists and the Nationalist Movement CHAPTER 30 : Evolution of Nationalist Foreign Policy CHAPTER 31 : The Emergence and Expansion of Communalism CHAPTER 32 : Communalism in its Liberal Phase CHAPTER 33 : Jinnah, Golwalkar, and Radical Communalism CHAPTER 34 : From the Tripuri Crisis to the Cripps Mission CHAPTER 35 : From the Quit India Movement to the INA CHAPTER 36 : Post-War National Awakening: India's Path to Independence CHAPTER 37 : Freedom and Partition: The Birth of India and Pakistan CHAPTER 38 : Strategic Evolution of the Indian National Movement CHAPTER 39 : The Ideological Landscape of the Indian National Movement
Download or read book The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai written by Mary E. Hancock and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office services. State and local governments promote tourism and a heritage-conscious cityscape to make Chennai a recognizable "brand" among investment and travel destinations. Using a range of textual, visual, architectural, and ethnographic sources, Hancock grapples with the question of how people in Chennai remember and represent their past, considering the political and economic contexts and implications of those memory practices. Working from specific sites, including a historic district created around an ancient Hindu temple, a living history museum, neo-traditional and vernacular architecture, and political memorials, Hancock examines the spatialization of memory under the conditions of neoliberalism.
Download or read book The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India written by Ajay Verghese and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action quotas in 2008, Ajmer's residents rioted while Jaipur's citizens stayed calm. What explains these divergent patterns of ethnic conflict across multiethnic states? Using archival research and elite interviews in five case studies spanning north, south, and east India, as well as a quantitative analysis of 589 districts, Ajay Verghese shows that the legacies of British colonialism drive contemporary conflict. Because India served as a model for British colonial expansion into parts of Africa and Southeast Asia, this project links Indian ethnic conflict to violent outcomes across an array of multiethnic states, including cases as diverse as Nigeria and Malaysia. The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India makes important contributions to the study of Indian politics, ethnicity, conflict, and historical legacies.
