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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 70–84.
Published: 01 August 1992
... , Venkatesh B. , Göran Djurfeldt, and Staffan Lindberg, 1990 . Barriers Broken: Production Relations and Agrarian Change in Tamil Nadu . New Delhi: Sage Publications. Baker , Christopher John , 1984 . An Indian Rural Economy, 1880–1955 , New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Barnett...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 147–150.
Published: 01 August 1991
... Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991). Two poems of Sivaramani - Translated from Tamil With an introduction by Sitralega Maunaguru The two poems published below were written by Sivaramani, who killed herself on May 19...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1991) 11 (1_and_2): 79–83.
Published: 01 August 1991
...Qadri Ismail Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1991 South Asia Bulletin, VoL XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (1991) Boys Will Be Boys: Gender And National Agency in Frantz Fanon and The Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam Qadri Ismail If. .. [women are critical of patriarchal practices...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 39–46.
Published: 01 August 1987
.... Satchi Ponnambalam, 1983. Sri Lanka: The National Question and the Tamil Liberation Struggle . London: The Tamil Information Center and Zed Books Limited. 273 pages. Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 References Anderson , Benedict 1983 . Imagined Communities, Reflections...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 521–523.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Chelva Kanaganayakam Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: An Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India Susan Seizer Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005 464 pp., $89.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Jean-Luc Racine; Josiane Racine © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 Dalit Identities and The Dialectics of Oppression and Emancipation in a Changing India: The Tamil Case and Beyond Jean-Luc Racine...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 May 1985
...). Mahadevan , Raman , ( 1973 ). “The Development of Modern Entrepreneurship in the Nattukotal Chettlar Community of Tamil Nadu”, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. II . (Chandigarh). Mahadevan , Raman , ( 1978a ). “Pattern of Enterprise of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Malaya 1880–1930...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (2): 21–26.
Published: 01 August 1986
...: The National Question and the Tamil Struggle, London. Roberts , Michael 1982 . Caste Conflict and Elite Formation: The Rise of a Karava Elite , Cambridge. Satyendra , N. 1985 . “Legitimate Expectations” in SIM ed. Ethnic Violence, Human Rights & Development, Utrecht...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (1): 83.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Malathi De Alwis Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 To a Tamil Friend: 1987 Malathi De Alwis It was wonderful meeting once again though you bewildered by the rush of tracon Colombo’s streets (we hardly see vehicles in Jaffna these days!) the glib lies spouted through...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (1): 42–56.
Published: 01 May 1992
...R. Cheran Copyright 1992: South Asia Bulletin 1992 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XII No. 1 (Spring 1992). Cultural Politics of Tamil Nationalism R. Cheran Social Scientists and Social Historians should be With this aspect in mind, the purpose of this paper forbidden from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 492–507.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Kristina Rogahn Abstract This article investigates multiple sources for the theory and criticism of the taṉippāṭal , a premodern genre of short poetic utterance in Tamil. It argues that although scholars have focused on Tamil scholastic discourse as a source for literary knowledge, certain genres...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 610–620.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Patrizia Granziera While the cult of trees is widespread in India, it is only in the south of India and especially in Tamil Nadu that the visitor frequently sees the pipal tree, symbolically considered male, planted together with a neem tree so that the two will grow together, their trunks...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 120–129.
Published: 01 August 1995
... of S. Vaiyapuri the beauty and growth of the Tamil language and Pillai, had marked such new words with the descrip- disfigure it; and is sure to inflame communal hatred. tion “mod meaning “modern.” A recent lexicog- E. M. Subramania Pillai to Government of Madras, rapher...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (2): 9–20.
Published: 01 August 1986
... in Ceylon (in) Ethnic Identity: Cultural Continuities and Change (eds.) de Vos, G., and L. Romanucci-Ross Mayfield Pub. Co. Ponnambalam , S. 1983 : National Conflict and the Tamil Liberation Struggle . ZED Books London. Roberts , Michael W. 1970 : The Political Antecedents...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 21–41.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Preetha Mani This article compares the 1950s and 1960s short story writing of two influential yet underexamined women writers, Mannu Bhandari (1931–) and R. Chudamani (1931–2010), who are considered key representatives of the Hindi and Tamil literary canons, respectively. Mani demonstrates...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 264–281.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Matthew H. Baxter Abstract The 1981 Dalit mass conversion to Islam at Meenakshipuram, Tamil Nadu, arguably began the Hindu Right's political rise. The conversion raises two different concepts for understanding mass conversion's relationship to democracy. Though it is commonly framed in terms of B...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 485–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in language debates in Telugu, a language whose particularity has not become a metonym either for the nation (like Hindi) or for a pan–South Indian identity (like Tamil). In tracing the movement from vulgar speech to proper language in this archive, this essay reframes vernacularity as an ethical compulsion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 164–178.
Published: 01 August 2010
... to an exploration of the political and historical reasons for the turn from the “antagonistic” model of opposition to the state that this literary icon has long represented, toward a modality of struggle that might be described instead as “agonistic.” I examine the classical Tamil epic Silappadikaram , whose...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (2): 38–45.
Published: 01 August 1986
.... Jayawardena , K. [ 1985 ] “Ethnic and Class Conflicts in Sri Lanka,” Centre for Social Analysis, Colombo. Karunaratna [ 1979 ] Lanka Sama Samaja Party and the Tamil Speaking People , pamphlet published by LSSP, Colombo. Kearney , R.N. [ 1967 ] Communalism and Language in the Politics...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (2): 34–37.
Published: 01 August 1986
... to claim that ple define it to be real, the social consequences of that the proposals were withdrawn not because of the TULF, but definition are likely to be real. At the height of the anti- because of the pressure that they (the Sinhalese) mobilized Tamil riots in Colombo in July...