
The essays fall into two distinct sections. Taking up both material (coffee, tea and tobacco) and cultural (the cartoon, the city and modern literature) artefacts, the first five chapters explore how these were consumed in colonial Tamil society. The chapters in the second part, broadly concerned with the politics of language, literature and identity in colonial Tamilnadu, make an important contribution to the cultural history of the Dravidian movement.
| kathryn v johnson jeffery deaver hamdy a taha andrew mcgill hans walter heldt | s v blakeslee deepa sn sudarshan s rynearson edward k m d vajpayee atal bihari |