Gilbert Slater

Revival: Southern India (1936) (eBook, ePUB)

Its Political and Economic Problems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 383
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351344098
• Artikelnr.: 50917967

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

I PROLOGUE II BOMBAY CITY AND THE BOMBAY DECCAN III FIRST DAYS IN MADRAS IV
THE GEOGRAPHY OF MADRAS V MAKING CONTACTS VI ERUVELLIPET, A DELTA VILLAGE
VII SALEM AND ITS ENVIRONS VII PALNI AND RESETTLEMENT IN MADURA DISTRICT IX
THE CITY OF MADURA X THE TINNEVELLY COTTON AREA XI KUMBAKONAM XII THE
NILGIRIS AND THE PALNI HILLS XIII THE COIMBATORE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE XIV
TRICHINOPOLY XV CUDDALORE AND PONDICHERRY XVI COCHIN AND TRICHUR XVII
CO-OPERATION IN CONJIVERAM AND ELSE-WHERE XIX THE INDIAN ECONOMIC
ASSOCIATION XX JUTE-MILLS AND THE MANAGING AGENT SYSTEM XXI THE TATA IRON
AND STEEL COMPANY AND THE MADRA COTTON-MILLS XXII PEASANTS IN GANJAM AND
THE GODAVARI DELTA XXIIIMYSORE STATE XXIV A VISIT TO BURMA XXV PUBLIC
AFFAIRS IN MADRAS, 1912-22 XXVI THE FAMINES OF 1918 AND 1920 XXVII THE WAR
AND AFTER XXVIII THE NEW CONSTITUTION IN MADRAS XXIX LABOUR TROUBLES XXX
THE WORK OF THE MADRAS PUBLICITY XXXI THE MADRAS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, XXXII
EPILOGUE Index of persons and places