The Emergence of Provincial Politics

The Madras Presidency 1870-1920

• Author(s): D. A. Washbrook,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 372
• ISBN_10: 0521053455
  ISBN_13: 9780521053457
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Asia / South / General , History / World ,

Description:... This book examines an important period of transition in the political structure of South India. The first three-quarters of a century of British rule, down to the 1870s, had effectively torn apart and fragmented the political institutions of the South, and had left a highly parochial political society in which loyalties seldom extended beyond face-to-face relationships and power was extremely localized. This lack of significant supra-local political connections contributed to the Madras Presidency's reputation as the most 'benighted' of all Indian provinces.