A study of the Piramalai Kallars (Kallans) a South Indian caste, widely viewed as thieves. (The ethnonym means "thief" in Tamil, and the British government designated them a "criminal tribe" in 1918.).
A study of the Piramalai Kallars (Kallans) a South Indian caste, widely viewed as thieves. (The ethnonym means "thief" in Tamil, and the British government designated them a "criminal tribe" in 1918.).
A study of the Piramalai Kallars (Kallans) a South Indian caste, widely viewed as thieves. (The ethnonym means "thief" in Tamil, and the British government designated them a "criminal tribe" in 1918.).
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"Trade, Ideology and Urbanization focuses on two major periods of urbanization in South India - the early historical period (300 BC-AD 300) and the early medieval period (AD 600-1300) - prior to the rise of the Vijaynagara empire." "The author discusses urbanism not merely in te…
The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed historical s…
"To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have bec…
This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to South Ind…
Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famou…
Men and Masculinities in South India
by Osella, Filippo, Osella, Caroline
fromAnthem South Asian studies
South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings uses a powerful combination of oral, literary and archival evidence to investigate the social an…
