Revival: Southern India (1936)

Its Political and Economic Problems

Gilbert Slater

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781138553224
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351344098
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

This book deals firstly with the economic and social conditions of life among the villagers, the artisans, and other workers in cities and towns of South India, and also with the new issues raised in India during the most momentous years of its history since the mutiny – the commercial and financial disturbances following the war, the sudden appearance of aggressive Trade Unionism, the famines of 1918 and 1920, the rise of the Home Rule agitation and the Non-Co-operation movement, and the coming into operation of the new Constitution of 1919. The author, who went to India in 1915 as Professor of Indian Economics in the University of Madras, was quickly brought into contact with heads of departments of the Provincial Government, was nominated by Lord Willingdon to the Madras Legislative Council, served in the Indian Board of Agriculture, and stayed on for a year in charge of the Madras Publicity Office. In these and in other ways he has had exceptional opportunities of getting insight into Indian problems from an unusual point of view.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• I PROLOGUE
• II BOMBAY CITY AND THE BOMBAY DECCAN
• III FIRST DAYS IN MADRAS
• IV THE GEOGRAPHY OF MADRAS
• V MAKING CONTACTS
• VI ERUVELLIPET, A DELTA VILLAGE
• VII SALEM AND ITS ENVIRONS
• VIII PALNI AND RESETTLEMENT IN MADURA DISTRICT
• IX THE CITY OF MADURA
• X THE TINNEVELLY COTTON AREA
• XI KUMBAKONAM
• XII THE NILGIRIS AND THE PALNI HILLS
• XIII THE COIMBATORE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
• XIV TRICHINOPOLY
• XV CUDDALORE AND PONDICHERRY
• XVI TRIVANDRUM AND TRAVANCORE
• XVII COCHIN AND TRICHUR
• XVIII CO-OPERATION IN CONJIVERAM AND ELSEWHERE
• XIX THE INDIAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• XX JUTE-MILLS AND THE MANAGING AGENT SYSTEM
• XXI THE TATA IRON AND STEEL COMPANY AND THE MADRAS COTTON-MILLS
• XXII PEASANTS IN GANJAM AND THE GODAVARI DELTA
• XXIII MYSORE STATE
• XXIV A VISIT TO BURMA
• XXV PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN MADRAS, 1912-22
• XXVI THE FAMINES OF 1918 AND 1920
• XXVII THE WAR AND AFTER
• XXVIII THE NEW CONSTITUTION IN MADRAS
• XXIX LABOUR TROUBLES
• XXX THE WORK OF THE MADRAS PUBLICITY OFFICE, 1921-22
• XXXI THE MADRAS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, 1921-22
• XXXII EPILOGUE
• Index of persons and places