The Emergence of Provincial Politics

The Emergence of Provincial Politics
Author: D. A. Washbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2008-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521053457

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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.