Social scientists generally write about the national or international affairs and rarely do they come down to the lower levels. They may write about villages but somehow the middling towns do not attract their attention. This is about a middling town--Nellore to be precise, which is the southern boundary of Andhra Pradesh. Every textbook of Indian history shows Nellore as the boundary of Emperor Ashoka and Aurangazeb. It had its own history and its own, ...
