Tamils - a Trans State Nation..

"To us all towns are one, all men our kin.
Life's good comes not from others' gift, nor ill
Man's pains and pains' relief are from within.
Thus have we seen in visions of the wise !."
- Tamil Poem in Purananuru, circa 500 B.C 

TAMIL NATION LIBRARY: Economic Life

[see also Tamils & the Digital Revolution]

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*Arun Bandopadhyay - The Agrarian economy of  Tamilnadu, 1820-1855

*Meera Abraham - Two Medieval Merchant Guilds of South India , Hardcover / Published: January 1988

*Christopher John Baker - An Indian Rural Economy, 1880-1955 : The Tamilnad Countryside , 1985

*Dayalan, D - Early Temples of Tamilnadu : Their Role in Socio-Economic Life  A.D. 550-925

Farmer, B.H. - Green revolution?: technology and change in rice-growing areas of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka - foreword by Sir Joseph Hutchinson - London: Macmillan, 1980,429p; 23cm

*Glaeser, Bernhard - Housing, Sustainable Development and the Rural Poor : A Study of Tamil Nadu Published 1996

* Kanakalatha Mukund: Trading World of the Tamil Merchant: Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel

*Sara Dickey - Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, No 92) 1993

+Jayalakshmi Ganesan, Rajan K. Sampath - Economics of Dry Farming in Tamil Nadu, Hardcover / Published: July 1974

*John Harriss - Capitalism and Peasant Farming : Agrarian Structure and Ideology in Northern Tamil Nadu, 1982

*Barbara Harriss - Child Nutrition and Poverty in South India : Noon Meals in Tamil Nadu , 1991

*G. Karunanithi - Caste and Class in industrial organisation : A case study of two industrial units in Tamil Nadu , Hardcover / Published: January 1991

*Krishna, C.S. - Labour Movement in Tamilnadu, 1918-1933

*Kurien, C.T. - Dynamics of rural transformation : a study of Tamil Nadu, 1950-1975

+Kurien, C. R. - Tamil Nadu Economy  / Hardcover / Published: January 1988

+Yoshimi Komoguchi - Agricultural Systems in Tamil Nadu: A Case Study of Peruvalanallur Village, Paperback / Published: January 1986

*Angela W. Little - Labouring to Learn : Towards a Political Economy of Plantations, People and Education in Sri Lanka (International Political Economy) / Hardcover / Published: December 1998 [suggested by Ravi Rajaratnam]

*Joan P Mencher - Agriculture and Social Structure in Tamil Nadu: Past Origins, Present Transformations and Future Prospects Published 1978

Ramesh, A and Tiwari, P.S. - Basic resource atlas of Tamil Nadu - Madras: Department of Geography, University of Madras, 1983 1 atlas ([94]p,60 leaves of plates)

*Jean-Luc Racine (Editor) - Peasant Moorings : Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India Published 1997

+Chitra Sivakumar, S. S. Sivakumar - Peasants and Nabobs: Agrarian Radicalism in Late 18th Century Tamil Country, Hardcover / Published: January 1993

Dennis Templeman The Northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu : An Indian Caste in the Process of Change  Hardcover / Oxford University Press, March 1996

*Theo Van Der Loop - Industrial Dynamics and Fragmented Labour Markets : Construction Firms and Labourers in India (Livelihood and Environment)  Published 1996

*Venkatesh B. Athreya,Staffan Lindberg,GForan Djurfeldt - Barriers Broken : Production Relations and Agrarian Change in Tamil Nadu  / Hardcover / Date Published: January 1990

*Vijayaragavan, K - Agricultural administration in India : a comparative study

+Haruka Yanagisawa - Century of Change, Caste and Irrigated Lands in Tamilnadu 1860's-1970's Hardcover / Published: January 1996