Rule of the commoner : DMK and the formations of the political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967 / Rajan Kurai Krishnan, Ravindran Sriramachandran, V. M. S. Subagunarajan.
Material type: TextSeries: Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approachesPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022Description: xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
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- volume
- 9781009197175
- 324.254083 KRI 23 020624
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Two scenes of departure -- Ideation -- Construction of 'Dravidian-Tamil' people -- The uses of language -- Human immanence -- Left populism -- Imagination -- The play is the thing -- Critical hermeneutics -- Counter-narratives -- Power of fiction -- Mobilization -- The grassroots -- The waves -- The eruption -- The climb.
"This book seeks to explain the different aspects of DMK in Tamil Nadu in terms of populist mobilization rooted in a regional subaltern identity"--
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