The power of peasant poets: Writing rural histories in South India (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)
The Indian Economic & Social History Review
Published online on January 09, 2026
Abstract
The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 103-132, January–March 2026.
A few centuries before the onset of colonial rule in South India, the focus of historical narratives underwent a gradual shift from the affairs of courts and temples to those of rural communities—migrations, land settlements and the political life of ...
A few centuries before the onset of colonial rule in South India, the focus of historical narratives underwent a gradual shift from the affairs of courts and temples to those of rural communities—migrations, land settlements and the political life of ...