The South India story attempted here is of a peninsular region influenced by the oceans, not by the Himalayas. Yet it is more than that. It is a story of facets

The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India

Fresh perspectives on the classic Indiana epic.

Revised version of seminar papers and contributed articles.

Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire,