This book examines the politics of trade in horses, elephants and the phenomenal growth of bulk goods in Asia besides export of saltpetre, pearls and diamonds to Portugal. Bullions were imported and it resulted in the monetization of economy and accumulation of capital on the Tamil coast. The Tamil coastal region is taken as a micro-historical unit which constituted the fulcrum of the entire maritime commercial system between South India and South-East Asia. The ...
The Coromondel Coast and Its Hinterland: Ecinomy, Society and Political System A.D.1500-1600
This book brings together seven empirical studies that have a distinct regional flavour of medieval and modern Indian agriculture, peasantry and peasant life in Assam, Malabar, Orissa, Punjab, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. It traces under-development and development in Agrarian India in the context of wider historical perspectives by outlining the importance of localities, regions and systems in land management. The editor in his introduction draws together and ...
Caste, Catholic Christianity and the Language of Conversion: Social Change and Cultural Translation in Tamil Country, 1519-1774
Based on a wide range of published sources, archival material and field data this book is an in-depth study of the Portuguese missions and missionaries in the Tamil coast and hinterland between 1519 and 1774. It brings to light the socio-cultural interaction between the missionaries and the natives emphasizing the role of Catholic Christianity and its various institutions. In exciting and unexpected ways the book provides various dimensions of change in the Tamil ...
