Bibliography of books on Tamil History, Ethnicity, Culture,
Sri lankan Tamils and Tamilnadu Politics

• Extraordinary Child : Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre (Shaps Library of Translations)
  Paula Richman (Editor)
  Paperback /Univ of Hawaii Pr ess, August 1997, ISBN: 0824810635
  
  
• Passions of the Tongue : Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 29)
  Sumathi Ramaswamy
  Hardcover / Published 1997
  
  
• Poverty, Policy and Politics in Madras Slums : Dynamics of Survival, Gender, and Leadership
  Joop W. De Wit
  Hardcover / Published 1997
  
  
• The Northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu : An Indian Caste in the Process of Change
  Dennis Templeman
  Hardcover / Published 1997
  
  
• Peasant Moorings : Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India
  Jean-Luc Racine (Editor)
  Hardcover / Published 1997
  
  
• A Taste of Madras : A South Indian Cookbook
  Rani Kingman
  Paperback / Published 1997
  
  
• Pierced by Murugan's Lance : Ritual, Power, and Moral Redemption Among Malaysian Hindus
  Elizabeth Fuller Collins
  Hardcover / Published 1997
  
  
• Housing, Sustainable Development and the Rural Poor : A Study of Tamil Nadu
  Bernhard Glaeser
  Hardcover / Published 1996
  
  
• A Tamil Asylum Diaspora : Sri Lankan Migration, Settlement and Politics in Switzerland (Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Vol 1)
  Christopher McDowell
  Hardcover / Published 1996
  
  
• Colonialism, chemical technology, and industry in Southern India
  Tyabji, Nasir
  Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
  
  
• Focussing state aid to industry : Madras, 1921-1937
  Tyabji, Nasir
  Madras : Madras Institute of Development Studies, 1988.
  Series title: Working paper (Madras Institute of Development Studies) ; no.83.
  
  
• Caste and capitalism in colonial India : the Nattukottai Chettiars
  David West Rudner
  Berkeley : University of California Press, c1994.
  
  
• Ethnic Unrest in Modern Sri Lanka : An Account of Tamil-Sinhalese Race Relations
  H.P. Chattopadhyaya
  Hardcover / Published 1994
  
  
• Ethnic conflict and reconciliation in Sri Lanka
  Manogaran, Chelvadurai (1935 -)
  Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1987.
  
  
• The Sri Lankan Tamils : ethnicity and identity
  edited by Chelvadurai Manogaran and Bryan Pfaffenberger
  Westview softcover ed. Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
  
  
• The break-up of Sri Lanka : the Sinhalese-Tamil conflict
  A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
  Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1988.
  
  
• Politics in Sri Lanka, 1947-1979
  A. Jeyaratnam Wilson. 2d ed.
  London : Macmillan, 1979.
  
  
• S.J.V. Chelvanayakam and the crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism, 1947-1977 : a political biography
  A. Jeyaratnam Wilson.
  Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c19
  
  
• Sri Lanka : The Invention of Enmity (Series on Religion, Nationalism, and Intolerance)
  David Little
  Paperback / Published 1994
  
  
• States, Nations, Sovereignty : Sri Lanka, India, and the Tamil Eelam Movement
  Sumantra Bose
  Hardcover / Published 1994
  
  
• Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, No 92)
  Sara Dickey
  New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  Series title: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 92.
  
  
• Differential attraction to the DMK : scheduled castes, backward castes, and contradictions in ideology , DISSERTATION
  by Sara A. Dickey. 1984.
  
  
• Caste, politics, and society in Tamilnadu
  edited by G. Palanithurai.
  Delhi : Kanishka Publishers Distributors, 1994.
  
  
• Ethnic movement in India : theory and practice
  G. Palanithurai, R. Thandavan.
  Delhi : Kanishka Pub. House, 1992.
  
  
• Changing contours of ethnic movement : a case study of Dravidian movement
  G. Palanithurai.
  Annamalainagar, Tamil Nadu : Dept. of Political Science, Annamalai University, 1989.
  Series title: Monograph series / Annamalai University, Dept. of Political Science ; 2.
  
  
• Dynamics of Tamil Nadu politics in Sri Lankan ethnicity
  G. Palanithurai, K. Mohanasundaram.
  New Delhi : Northern Book Centre, 1993.
  
  
• Empowering people for prosperity : a study in new panchayati raj system
  G. Palanithurai
  Delhi : Kanishka Publishers Distributors, 1994.
  
  
• Ethnic political parties and electoral behaviour in Tamil Nadu
  G. Palanithurai.
  Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu : Dept. of Political Science, Annamalai Series title: Monograph series / Annamalai University, Dept. of Political Science ; 1.
  
  
• Management of ethnic conflict in India and Canada : a comparative analysis
  G. Palanithurai.
  Delhi : Kanishka Publishers Distributors, 1993.
  
  
• People perception of politics, an Indian perspective
  G. Palanithurai.
  Delhi : Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, 1995.
  
  
• Reaction and response in legislature
  G. Palanithurai. 1st ed.
  Annamalainagar : Annamalai University, 1989.
  
  
• Role perception of the legislators : a case study of Tamil Nadu
  G.Palanithurai.
  Delhi : Konark Publishers, c1991.
  
  
• Perspectives on Indian regionalism
  edited by G. Palanithurai, R. Thandavan.
  Delhi : Kanishka Pub. House, 1992.
  
  
• New panchayati raj system : status and prospects
  edited by G.Palanithurai.
  New Delhi : Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, 1996.
  
  
• Hindu and Christian in South-East India
  Geoffrey A. Oddie.
  London : Curzon Press ; Wellesley Hills, MA : Riverdale Co., 1991.
  Series title: London studies on South Asia no. 6.
  
  
• Religion in South Asia : religious conversion and revival movements in South Asia in medieval and modern times
  edited by G. A. Oddie.
  London : Curzon Press, 1977.;
  2nd rev. & enl. ed. New Delhi : Manohar, 1991.
  
  
• Indo-Sri Lanka relations : with special reference to the Tamil problem
  Ravi Kant Dubey. 2nd rev. & up-dated ed.
  New Delhi : Deep & Deep Publications, c1993.
  
  
• Symbols of Substance : Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu
  Velcheru Narayana Rao, et al
  Hardcover / Published 1993
  
  
• Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu (Living Traditions of India)
  Nanditha Krishna, V.K. Rajamani (Photographer)
  Mapin Pub. ; Middletown, NJ : Grantha, 1992.
  Series title: Living traditions of India.
  
  
• The art and iconography of Vishnu-Narayana
  Nanditha Krishna.
  Bombay : D.B. Taraporevala, 1980.
  
  
• Ganesha, the auspicious, the beginning
  Shakunthala Jagannathan, Nanditha Krishna.
  Bombay : Vakils, Feffer & Simons Ltd., 1992.
  
  
• Kanchi : a heritage of art and religion
  edited by Nandhitha Krishna.
  Madras : C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar Institute of Indological Research, C.P.
  Ramaswami Aiyar Foundation, 1992.
  
  
• Family Planning in Urban Slum : Its Analysis and Implications
  Sumathy S. Rao
  Hardcover / Published 1992
  
  
• The Image Trap : M G Ramachandran in Film and Politics
  M.S.S. Pandian
  New Delhi ; Newbury Park : Sage, 1992.
  
  
• Peasants, natural resource use, and state intervention in Nanchilnadu, c. 1850-1940
  M.S.S. Pandian.
  Calcutta : Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 1987.
  Series title: Occasional paper (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences) ; no. 90.
  
  
• The political economy of agrarian change : Nanchilnadu, 1880-1939
  M.S.S. Pandian.
  New Delhi ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1990.
  
  
• Child Nutrition and Poverty in South India : Noon Meals in Tamil Nadu
  Barbara Harriss
  Hardcover / Published 1991
  

• Agricultural change and the mercantile state : a study of public policy in Tamil Nadu
  Barbara Harriss. 1st ed.
  Madras : Cre-A, 1985.
  
  
• Exchange relations and poverty in dryland agriculture : studies in South India
  Barbara Harriss with Graham Chapman ... [et al.].
  New Delhi : Concept, 1984.
  
  
• State and market : state intervention in agricultural exchange in a dry region of Tamil Nadu, South India
  Barbara Harriss.
  New Delhi : Concept Pub. Co., 1984, c1983.
  
  
• Paddy and rice marketing in northern Tamil Nadu
  Barbara Harriss.
  Madras : Published by Sangam Publishers for Madras Institute of Development Studies, 1979.
  Series title: Madras Institute of Development Studies MIDS publication ; 19.
  
  
• Play, symbolism, and ritual : a study of Tamil Brahmin women's rites of passage
  Vasumathi K. Duvvury.
  New York : P. Lang, c1991.
  Series title: American university studies. Series XI, Anthropology/sociology vol. 41.
  
  
• The Powers of Tamil women
  edited by Susan S. Wadley ; contributors, Sheryl B. Daniel ... [et al.]. Syracuse, N.Y. : Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1980.
  Series title: Foreign and comparative studies. South Asian series ; no 6.
  
  
• Shakti : power in the conceptual structure of Karimpur religion
  Susan Snow Wadley.
  Chicago : Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1975.
  Series title: Series in social, cultural, and linguistic anthropology no. 2. ; Series title: University of Chicago. Dept. of Anthropology University of Chicago studies in anthropology.
  
  
• Role of students in freedom movement : with special reference to Madras Presidency
  V. Sankaran Nair.
  Delhi : Konark Publishers, c1990.
  
  
• Swadeshi movement : the beginnings of student unrest in south India
  V. Sankaran Nair.
  Delhi, India : Mittal Publications : Distributed by Mittal Publishers' Distributors, 1985.
  
  
• Barriers broken : production relations and agrarian change in Tamil Nadu
  Venkatesh B. Athreya, Goran Djurfeldt, Staffan Lindberg.
  New Delhi ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1990.
  
  
• The cyanide war : Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka, 1973-88
  Edgar O'Ballance. 1st ed.
  London ; Washington [D.C.] : Brassey's (UK) ; Elmsford, N.Y., USA : Pergamon Press [distributor for the U.S.], 1989.
  
  
• Ethnicity in urban context : the Gujaratis in Madras City
  Leila Narayanan. 1st ed.
  Jaipur : Rawat Publications, 1989.
  
  
• Notes on love in a Tamil family
  Margaret Trawick.
  Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990.
  
  
• Theatre of the Mahabharata : Terukkuttu Performances in South India
  Richard Armando Frasca
  Hardcover / Published 1990
  
  
• Labour movement in Tamilnadu, 1918-1933
  C.S. Krishna.
  New Delhi : K.P. Bagchi & Co., 1989.
  
  
• The Tamil national question and the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord
  edited by N. Seevaratnam.
  Delhi : Konark Publishers, c1989.
  
  
• The press in Tamil Nadu and the struggle for freedom, 1917-1937
  A. Ganesan. 1st ed.
  Delhi, India : Mittal Publications, 1988.
  
  
• Nityasumangali : Devadasi Tradition in South Asia
  Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story
  Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1987.
  
  
• Diglossia : a study of the theory with application to Tamil
  Francis Britto ; foreword by Charles A. Ferguson.
  Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c1986.
  
  
• Class and gender in India : women and their organizations in a south
  Indian city
  Patricia Caplan.
  London ; New York : Tavistock Publications,1985.
  
  
• An Indian rural economy, 1880-1955 : the Tamilnad countryside
  Christopher John Baker.
  Delhi ; New York ; Oxford : University Press, 1984.
  
  
• The politics of South India, 1920-1937
  Christopher John Baker.
  Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.
  Series title: Cambridge South Asian studies ; 17.
  
  
• South India : political institutions and political change, 1880-1940
  C. J. Baker, D. A. Washbrook.
  Delhi : Macmillan Co. of India, 1975.
  
  
• The political behaviour of women in Tamil Nadu
  V. Rajalakshmi.
  New Delhi : Inter-India Publications, 1985.
  
  
• The undesirables : the expatriation of the Tamil people "of recent Indian origin" from the plantations in Sri Lanka to India
  Yvonne Fries, Thomas Bibin.
  Calcutta : K P Bagchi, 1984.
  
  
• The tyranny of caste : the Non-Brahman movement and political development in South India
  Indhu Rajagopal.
  New Delhi : Vikas, c1985.
  
  
• Ideology and political development in Madras : the politics of the
  non-Brahman movement, 1919-1932
  by Indhu Rajagopal.
  Dissertation , 1979.
  
  
• The face behind the mask : women in Tamil literature
  C.S. Lakshmi.
  New Delhi : Vikas, c1984.
  Series title: Women in society.
  
  
• Fluid signs : being a person the Tamil way
  E. Valentine Daniel.
  Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984.
  
  
• Plantations, proletarians, and peasants in colonial Asia
  edited by E. Valentine Daniel, Henry Bernstein, and Tom Brass.
  London ; Portland, Or. :F. Cass, 1992.
  Series title: Library of peasant studies ; no. 11].
  
  
• Capitalism and peasant farming : agrarian structure and ideology in
  northern Tamil Nadu
  John Harriss.
  Bombay : Oxford University Press, 1982.
  
  
• Urban labour market structure and job access in India : a study of
  Coimbatore
  John Harriss, K.P. Kannan, and Gerry Rodgers.
  Geneva :International Institute for Labour Studies, 1990.
  Series title: Research series (International Institute for Labour
  Studies) ; no. 92.
  
  
• Migration and ethnicity in urban India : Kerala migrants in the city of
  Madras, 1870-1970
  Susan Lewandowski.
  New Delhi : Manohar, 1980.
  
  
• Caste in Tamil culture : the religious foundations of sudra domination in Tamil Sri Lanka
  Bryan Pfaffenberger.
  Syracuse, N.Y. : Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1982.
  Series title: Foreign and comparative studies. South Asian series ; no. 7.
  
  
• Agriculture and social structure in Tamil Nadu : past origins, present
  transformations, and future prospects
  Joan P. Mencher.
  Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c1978.
  
  
• South Indian female cultivators and agricultural laborers : who are they and what do they do?
  Joan P. Mencher.
  [East Lansing, Mich.] : Michigan State University, c1989.
  
  
• The attitudes of British Protestant missionaries towards nationalism in India : with special reference to Madras Presidency, 1919-1927
  Elizabeth Susan Alexander.
  Delhi : Konark Publishers, 1994.
  
  Ankalaparamecuvari : a goddess of Tamilnadu, her myths and cult
  Eveline Meyer.
  Stuttgart : Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH, 1986.
  
  Caste and class in industrial organisation : a case study of two
  industrial units in Tamil Nadu
  G. Karunanithi.
  New Delhi, India : Commonwealth Publishers, 1991.
  
  Dravidianization : a Tamil revitalization movement
  E.T. Jacob-Pandian.
  Dissertation, [1972].
  
  
• Changing land values and widening disparities : a case study of Tamil Nadu
  M. Sebastian Stanislaus ; assisted by A. Mariaraj and S. Varadarajan.
  Bombay : Himalaya Pub. House, 1989.
  
  
• E. V. Ramaswami Naicker-Periyar : a study of the influence of a
  personality in contemporary South India
  Anita Diehl. Stockholm ; Goteborg ; Lund : Esselte studium, 1977.
  Series title: Lund studies in international history ; 10.
  Series title: Scandinavian university books.
  
  
• Periyar E.V. Ramaswami : a study of the influence of a personality in
  contemporary South India
  Anita Diehl.
  Bombay : B.I. Publications, c1978.
  
  
• South India : political institutions and political change, 1880-1940
  C. J. Baker, D. A. Washbrook.
  Delhi : Macmillan Co. of India, 1975.
  
  
• The emergence of provincial politics : the Madras Presidency, 1870-1920
  D. A. Washbrook.
  Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.