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The earliest stratum of Tamil literature - Ettuthogai,Pathuppattu and grammar Tolkappiyam is dated to theearly centuries of the Common Era. Widelycommented upon during the medieval period theclassical corpus was known among the commentatorsas Canror Ceyyul (poetry of the noble ones). This booktraces the history of classics during the modern periodwhen print technology started to proliferate in Tamilsociety during the nineteenth and early twentiethcentury.
Indigenous and Western Medicine in Colonial India delves deep into the social history of medicine and reflects on the multiplicity and complexity of social interaction and encounter between indigenous and western medicine. An important feature of this book is that it is prepared almost solely on the basis of sources such as tracts and pamphlets written by a wide variety of people, brochures and booklets of various medicine shops and drug manufacturing companies. ...
Himalayan Degradation, Colonial Forestry and Environmental Change in India questions the recent trend of treating environmental and agrarian concerns as two separate domains. In this aspect, the book goes beyond the existing framework of environmental history that focuses only on the study of state policies and debates over redefining rights and examining protests. The author makes a careful study of the larger rural economy, emphasising the changing significance ...
This book is a critical assessment of the history of forestry and forest administration in the Nizam's Dominions or the Hyderabad State from 1867 to 1948. It seeks to document and analyse the emergence of state forest management in the Hyderabad State. In addition, it examines the process of enactment of Forest Acts and policies, commercial exploitation of forest resources and the popular response to the newly set up forest administration and management. The ...