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082			_a954.82 _bPAN
100			_aPandian, M. S. S
245			_aThe strangeness of Tamil Nadu : contemporary history and political culture in South India
260			_bPermanent Black, _aRanikhet : _c2019
300			_axiv, 250 p. ; _bill., _c22 cm
365			_b595.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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			_aVeerappan
650			_aVardaraja Mudaliar;
650			_aTamil militants
650			_aDMK
650			_aPeriyar's ideals
650			_aTamil Political culture
650			_aReligion
650			_aCaste
650			_aNationalism
650			_aSocial conditions
700			_aLudden, David E. _eed.
700			_aAnandhi, S. _eed.
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