Gilbert Slater

Gebundenes Buch

Revival

Southern India (1936): Its Political and Economic Problems

Beschreibung

This book deals firstly with the economic and social conditions of life among the villagers, the artisans, and other workers in cities and towns of South India, and also with the new issues raised in India during the most momentous years of its history since the mutiny - the commercial and financial disturbances following the war, the sudden appearance of aggressive Trade Unionism, the famines of 1918 and 1920, the rise of the Home Rule agitation and the Non-Co-operation movement, and the coming into operation of the new Constitution of 1919.

Autor

Gilbert Slater (27 August 1864 - 8 March 1938) was an English economist and social reformer of the early 20th century. Gilbert was born in Plymouth in 1864. His father was a school teacher. Slater studied economics and worked as a professor. In 1909, he was appointed principal of Ruskin College and served from 1909 to 1915. From 1915 to 1921, Slater served as the Professor of Economics at the University of Madras. Slater died in 1938 at the age of 73. Slater is known for rural developments he initiated in India. Slater is also known for his love for Dravidian culture and civilization and for theorizing that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by several different writers at different times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9781138553224
• ISBN-10: 1138553220
• Artikelnr.: 53167395