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082			_223 _a954.82 _bPANS
100			_aM S S Pandian _960237
245			_aStrangeness of Tamil Nadu: _bContemporary history and political culture in South India
260			_aRaniket _bPermanent Black _c2022
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365			_2History _a4940 _b476.00 _c₹ _d595.00 _e20% _f17-10-2022
520			_aM.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.
650			_aIdentity and Language _960211
650			_aParty Politics _960212
650			_aCaste _960213
650			_aEelam Hope and Despair _960214
700			_aPANDIAN (M S S) _960215
700			_aLUDDEN (David) Ed _960238
700			_aANANDHI (S) Ed _960239
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