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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Emergence Of Provincial Politics : The Madras Presidency 1870-1920 by D. A. Washbrook
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 Presidencys reputation as the most benighted of all Indian provinces.show more