Description
This comprehensive and meticulously curated collection brings together 32 scholarly volumes dedicated to the historical, economic, social, and literary fabric of Tamil Nadu, the Coromandel Coast, and South India. Spanning from ancient classical Cankam poetry and medieval folk epics to centuries of European colonial presence (Portuguese, Dutch, French, and British), this bundle covers deep-rooted agrarian shifts, maritime trade networks, socio-religious transformations, legal administrative histories, and the path to modern nationalism. It serves as an authoritative archive for exploring how South India interacted with the wider Indian Ocean world.
Who Needs to Read This Collection?
This collection is essential for historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and literary scholars specializing in South Indian studies, colonial history, and maritime trade networks. It is also an invaluable resource for postgraduate researchers, academic libraries, and anyone deeply interested in the rich cultural longevity, economic evolution, and geopolitical history of the Tamil country from ancient times through the mid-20th century.
Why Read These Books?
Understanding South India’s historical identity requires moving beyond broad national narratives to examine regional micro-histories, coastal economies, and cross-cultural encounters. By compiling rare studies on climate history, caste and agrarian labor, subaltern legal dilemmas, and ancient literary bridges, this bundle equips readers with nuanced, multi-disciplinary insights into how Tamil society, commerce, and political consciousness were continuously reshaped over centuries.
Books in the Bundle:
A Century of Change: Caste and Irrigated Lands in Tamilnadu 1860s-1970s
A Gift of Tamil: Translations from Tamil Literature in Honor of K.Paramasivam
A History of Indian Literature Volume X Fasc.2: The Relation between Tamil and Classical Sanskrit Literature
A History of Indian Literature Volume X: Tamil Literature
Dravidian Sahibs and Brahmin Maulanas: The Politics of the Muslims of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1967
Dutch Sources on South Asia c. 1600-1825 (Volume 4): Mission to Madurai: Dutch Embassies to the Nayaka Court of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century
Encounters on the Opposite Coast: The Dutch East Indian Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century
Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
History of the Climate Change on the Coromandel Coast: Ninth-Nineteenth Centuries
Imperial Gazetteer of India Provincial Series: Madras (2 Vols. Set)
Kavya in South India: Old Tamil Cankam Poetry
Land and Caste in South India: Agricultural Labour in Madras Presidency in the Nineteenth Century
Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Ponnivala Nadu
Law and Justice in Colonial Madras, Pondicherry and Tranquebar, 1642-1857
Le Gentil: An 18th Century French Astronomer in Pondicherry
Men Without Hats: Dialogue, Discipline and Discontent in the Madras Army, 1806-1807
Nagapattinam to Suvarnadwipa: Reflections on the Chola Naval Expeditions to Southeast Asia
Pathways to Nationalism: Social Transformation and Nationalist Conciousness in Colonial Tamil Nadu, 1858-1918
Patrons Devotees and Goddesses: Ritual and Power Among the Tamil Fishermen of Sri Lanka
Pierre Sonnerat: An 18th Century French Naturalist on the Coromandel Coast
Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and South India under French Rule: From Francois Martin to Dupleix 1674-1754
Revisiting the Past: Land and Water Management System in the Kaveri and Krishna Delta Regions
Slaves from the Tamil Coast and European Trade around the World, 1547-1792
The Civilian’s South India: Some Places and People in Madras
The Coromandel Coast and its Hinterland: Economy, Society and Political System (AD. 1500-1600)
The Nadars of Tamilnad: The Political Culture of a Community in Change
The Politics of Trade: Anglo-France Commerce on the Coromandel Coast 1763-1793
The Silappadikaram
The Tamil Merchants and Southeast Asian Rulers: Merchandise, Maritime Trade and Traffic, 1506-1813
The Tamil Veda: Pillan’s Interpretation of the Tiruvaymoli
Towards Freedom in Pondicherry: Society, Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816-1962)
