...D. Veeraraghavan; T. Thankappan Copyright 1991: South Asia Bulletin 1990 South Asia Bulletin, volume 10 number 1, 1990. Class Conflict and the Colonial State in Madras Presidency up to 1918 D. Veeraraghavan T. Thankappan Existing literature on the Indian working class...

... are the writings and the views of colonial administrator James Henry Nelson on the lack of a Brahmanical Hindu law in the Madras Presidency. Nelson's controversial viewpoints brought him into confrontation with Justice Lewis Charles Innes, a Madras High Court judge. The elements of this confrontation lays bare...

...Devika Shankar Abstract Through a focus on an abandoned harbor development project in Tuticorin in southeastern India, this article interrogates the factors shaping port development in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Tuticorin—which at the time was the second-busiest port in the Madras...

... Investment In India: 1900–1939 . (London: Cambridge University Press). Baker , C.J. , ( 1976 ). The Politics of South India: 1920–1937 . (London: Cambridge University Press). Baker , C.J. , ( 1981 ). “Colonial Rule and Internal Economy in Twentieth Century Madras”, Modern Asian Studies . Vol...

... 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...

... for their useful feedback. My thanks also to John Harriss, David Ludden, Christian Novetzke, and Taylor Rockhill for generously reading later versions of the manuscript. I am responsible for any remaining errors of fact or argument. The title of the penultimate section, “‘Thinking Electrically’ in Madras Province...

... considered by Dharma Kumar, Land and Caste in South In this paper I have set forth my grounds for criticizing India: Agricultural Labour in the Madras Presidency During both the existing characterization of the political economy the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press; London, of pre...

... are somewhat George in Madras. More significant was the creation of difficult to conceal, rapes and beatings (including in the Adi-Dravida Mahajana Sabha in 185% Petitions for police stations) are clearly underestimated.’ The press using the term Adi-dravida and prohibiting the word covers...

... Organizations in South India , New Delhi: Indian Social Institute. Athreya , Venkatesh B. , 1984 . Vadamalaipuram: A Resurvey , Madras: Madras Institute of Development Studies, mimeo. Athreya , Venkatesh B. , 1985 . Gangaikondan 1916–1984: Change and Stability , Madras: Madras Institute...

... to London to illustrate “progress and improvement” under British rule. 44 It is remarkable that at a time when colonial monumentality was under attack—literally, in the case of the statues of Lord Lawrence in Lahore and of General Neill, “the butcher of Allahabad,” in Madras—the British clung so...

...Figure 2. Charles Hunt, Madras Landing , 1856. © British Library Board (P1551). ...

... , 1999 . PDF e-book . www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm . ———. The Green Pamphlet: The Grievances of the British Indians in South Africa: An Appeal to the Indian Public . 2nd ed. Madras : Price Current Press , 1896 . Guha Ramachandra . Gandhi before India . Gurgaon : Penguin...

... for pedagogical use pertained to this diglossic aspect of the language. Popularly called the Telugu language debates (1910–15), these dissensions occurred among scholars in Madras Presidency who were split into two movements (also called schools ). 9 Ramamurti was the founder of the modern Telugu movement...

..., Batavia (1619), and Cape Town (1652), French Pondicherry (1674), and English New York, Madras (1639), Bombay (1661), and Calcutta (1686) were all new port cities, built respectively on similar Dutch, French, and English lines, in relation to one another, as “colonial port cities.” 22 Ports...

... of the time. leaf manuscripts of Civavaakiyar and systematically de- Likewise, in the nineteenth century, after the absorp- stroyed them. One German author in 1919 reported tion of Tanjavur into the Madras Presidency in 1799 that “the works of the Siddhars [are] systematically dis...

... standards of the bourgeois feudal establishment. disguise to resume his political work, this time organiz- Dada’s writing of his memoirs was interrupted in ing factory workers in Madras. An exasperated British 1942 by his release from Nasik Jail. The specter of colonial official wrote that although...

... reserves the exclusive right of the handloom industry of India to produce certain commonly used Indian textiles, such as bordered fabrics. 4. Pradeep Kumar Das, interview with Gunjan Jain of Vriksh (textile design studio), March 19, 2016. 5. “Proceedings of the Madras Board of Revenue...

... Printing , 1867 . “ Act No. XXIII. Of 1854: An Act for the Suppression of Outrages in the District of Malabar, in the Presidency of Fort St. George .” In The Acts of the Legislative Council of India, Relating to the Madras Presidency from 1848 to 1855 , 293 – 96 . Madras : Scotland Mission Press...