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List of maps
and tables viii
Preface ix
Notes on
references, transliteration and abbreviations xvii
1 Politics
and the province: the Justice party 1
Towards
dyarchy: society and government in the south 2
Mylapore,
Congress and Justice 1890-1920 22
Dyarchy and
the distribution of power 39
Ministers
and patronage in the mofussil 54
The
organisation of the Justice party 64
Ministers,
Justicites and non-Brahmans 77
2 The province
and the locality 85
Local
society and local government 87
Local
self-government and the reforms of 1919-20 99
The
leadership of local government 118
Pockets of
local instability 131
Elections to
the Legislative Council 149
The
Swarajists 155
The first
decade of dyarchy 167
3
Depression, dissent and disengagement 169
The
depression 170
Rural
agitations 200
Themes in
Civil Disobedience 211
The politics
of disengagement 224
The Justice
party in decline 237
4 The ascent
of the Congress 245
The
provincial Congress 247
From
agitations to elections 255
Congress and
local elections 265
Congress
organisation 282
The 1937
elections 293
Congress
victory 312
Postscript 316
Conclusion 320
Biographical
notes 327
Glossary 336
Bibliography
339
Index 354
MAPS AND
TABLES
MAPS
1 Madras
Presidency – natural features, regions and languages xx
2 Madras
Presidency – districts xxi
3 Madras
Presidency – municipal towns xxii
TABLES
1 Madras
Government revenues 16
2 Madras
Government expenditure 17
3 Education
and community 46
4 The public
services in Madras Presidency 47
5 Family
background of students 48
6 The growth
of education and service jobs 49
7 The rural
elite 90
8 The urban
elite 95
9
Constitution of local government 102
10 Local
government expenditure 103
11 Local
government taxation 104
12 Principal
articles of export 171
13 Foreign
trade of Madras Presidency 172
14 Index
numbers of prices 174
15
Joint-stock capital in Madras Presidency 187
16 New
companies in the 1930s 188
17 Imports
of machinery and millwork into Madras Presidency 189
18 Cotton
mill industry in the Madras Presidency 190
19
Population growth and urbanisation 191
20 The
Madras Legislative Assembly election results 1937 311
21 Congress
membership 316
