02035nam a22002777a 4500 20221022124758.0 221022b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788178245492 AL eng 23 954.82 PANS M S S Pandian 60237 Strangeness of Tamil Nadu: Contemporary history and political culture in South India Raniket Permanent Black 2022 xiv,250p. PB 22x14cm. History 4940 476.00 ₹ 595.00 20% 17-10-2022 M.S.S. Pandian (1958–2014) was an eminent historian of South Indian politics, caste, culture, and cinema. His writings offer distinctively Tamil insights on these areas. In this book his chief focus is Tamil political culture for roughly thirty years since 1985. His success lies in bringing a historical understanding to bear on what he called “the strangeness of Tamil Nadu”. a key figure in pandian’s thinking was e.V. Ramasamy “Periyar”. pandian argues that periyar’s ideals and strategies long remained popular among Tamil progressives, but that their survival became difficult because of radical changes in pan-indian political culture. To show these changes, this book is organised chronologically as well as along thematic sections that reflect the themes of periyar’s Dravidian ideology: linguistic identity, state politics, religion, and caste. Periyar’s ideas, pandian argues, can still provide productive standards for critical analysis of politics in India. But because they are not widely known or appreciated outside Tamil Nadu, they represent the “strangeness” of Tamil politics instead of being adapted as progressive in the country as a whole. Identity and Language 60211 Party Politics 60212 Caste 60213 Eelam Hope and Despair 60214 PANDIAN (M S S) 60215 LUDDEN (David) Ed 60238 ANANDHI (S) Ed 60239 ddc BK 224910 224910 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2022-10-21 Biblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014 476.00 0 954.82 PANS 076154 2022-10-22 00:00:00 595.00 2022-10-22 BK