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Explore one of Tamil Nadu’s many grand Hindu temples, stopping to savour the smell of jasmine garlands piled up before carved granite gods. Crane your neck to see the top of these towering pyramid-like temples adorned with the statues of deities, warriors and dancers. Escape the heat by following the footsteps of the British colonialists into the charming hill stations, or go surround yourself by nature in the blue Nilgiri mountains. Featuring detailed coverage of this wonderfully diverse region, Footprintfocus Chennai & Tamil Nadu will prove an invaluable companion. ·         Essentials section with practical tips on getting there and around.·         Background section with fascinating information on the region’s unique history, culture & cuisine.·         Comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep & play including festivals and horse riding.·         Detailed street maps for important cities and towns.·         Slim enough to fit in your pocket.Loaded with advice and information, this concise Footprintfocus guide will help you get the most out of Tamil Nadu without weighing you down.The content of the Footprintfocus Chennai & Tamil Nadu guide has been extracted from Footprint’s India Handbook.

Contributions by R.K. Narayan. Text by Raghubir Singh.

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Tamil Nadu has rich cultural heritage including folklore rooted to traditional values and beliefs. The present book is an attempt to record this treasure-trove of the state in a lucid style and is, thus, a veritable document on its rural populace--their songs, dramas, dances, social and religious customs, oral literature, etc. The Tamil edition of this book, translated by the author himslef, was awarded by the Tamil Nadu government.

Among all Indian states, economic and social development in Tamil Nadu has been uniquely characterized by the political ideologies of the Dravidian parties that have ruled the state from 1967. Starting from a platform of social reform and social justice, the parties have effectively transformed institutions and structures in the state to deliver a social welfare agenda, with the full support of the bureaucracy. The book chronicles the history of the social reform movement, and how these ideas were implemented in policy and through programmes to bring about fundamental changes in institutions of governance and delivery of welfare. Case studies of selected programmes illustrate this development.The author was part of the administration and a witness as well as a participant of these developments. The book is an intimate narrative from the point of view of an insider into the DMK and AIADMK regimes and the iconic leaders of these parties like MGR, M. Karunanidhi, and Jayalalitha.

This book collects traditional Tamilian family recipes that have been adapted to modern day requirements. This beautiful book includes color photographs.

The culinary heritage of Tamil Nadu is rich and full of surprises. From the special rasam of the Kongunadu people to the Anglo Indian pot roasts, Tamil cuisine goes beyond the hackneyed idli-dosai. Annapurni, in an attempt to shed light on the culinary heritage and diversity of the southern state, documents favorite recipes of the Tamil people, and of those who have over the generations embraced Tamil Nadu as their home - producing a delightful mingling of traditional cuisines. The lip-smacking dishes of the Mudaliars, Vellalas, Naidus, Anglo Indians, Chettiars, and Tamil Muslims have been featured in this book, along with the delicate balance of flavors and communities that constitute the social fabric of the land down under.

Siddhas were mystics of ancient India. They believed that human race was created to excel in knowledge and help human societies form an advanced civilization on the Earth. They knew that they needed to live longer and even become immortals to achieve this goal. In Indian context Siddhas were considered as doctors but in Western context, such people were called Philosophers. Nevertheless, a deeper understanding of Siddhas' poetic scripts reveals their different faces such as scientific thinkers, social reformers, priest kings, pioneers of advanced cultures, etc. Siddhas speak about spirit, soul and body in their scripts. They also compare cosmos, nature and earth in their science. The unique attainment of Siddhas could be their mastery over physical and cosmic sciences. Siddhas believed that physical science is comparable with cosmic science. Thus, through their physical and cosmic observations, they succeeded in inventing ambrosia of Gods and many became Gods themselves.

The cuisines of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are among the finest in all of India. The artful blend of aromatic spices and healthy ingredients makes Kachi's Kitchen a book that must be in every family's library. With flavorful, mouthwatering recipes passed down through generations, this book brings authentic recipes, unique and traditional, to your home. Ann Vinod started this book as an effort to preserve her family's heritage and found over 140 treasured recipes including Avial, Puttu and Fish Molee. Kachi's Kitchen provides delicious recipes so anyone can prepare a simple dinner or a special family feast with a South Indian flair.

Recent scholarship on the history of music in South Asia has examined the processes by which music as an art form was reinvented for nationalist purposes, yet, the disciplined study of music (and its aesthetics) remains only a few centuries old. Studying music through a historical lens has opened new approaches to interdisciplinary studies. Music as History in Tamilnadu examines how history can be interpreted through aesthetics and music and vice versa.  Musicologists focus on the study of musical activity, while ethnomusicologists examine this activity first-hand using the 'field' research methods of cultural anthropology. The historian's task, then, is to interpret the musical past as part of cultural production and thereafter relate music to general historical trends. This collection of essays seeks to establish the interdisciplinarity between music (the Karnatak system) and the history of Tamilnadu, south India.

Siddhas were mystics of ancient India. They believed that human race was created to excel in knowledge and help human societies form an advanced civilization on the Earth. They knew that they needed to live longer and even become immortals to achieve this goal. In Indian context Siddhas were considered as doctors but in Western context, such people were called Philosophers. Nevertheless, a deeper understanding of Siddhas' poetic scripts reveals their different faces such as scientific thinkers, social reformers, priest kings, pioneers of advanced cultures, etc. Siddhas speak about spirit, soul and body in their scripts. They also compare cosmos, nature and earth in their science. The unique attainment of Siddhas could be their mastery over physical and cosmic sciences. Siddhas believed that physical science is comparable with cosmic science. Thus, through their physical and cosmic observations, they succeeded in inventing ambrosia of Gods and many became Gods themselves.

The cuisines of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are among the finest in all of India. The artful blend of aromatic spices and healthy ingredients makes Kachi's Kitchen a book that must be in every family's library. With flavorful, mouthwatering recipes passed down through generations, this book brings authentic recipes, unique and traditional, to your home. Ann Vinod started this book as an effort to preserve her family's heritage and found over 140 treasured recipes including Avial, Puttu and Fish Molee. Kachi's Kitchen provides delicious recipes so anyone can prepare a simple dinner or a special family feast with a South Indian flair.

A collection of Raj’s groundbreaking ethnographic studies of “vernacular” Catholic traditions in Tamil Nadu, India.Finalist for the 2018 Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies presented by the Society for Hindu-Christian StudiesAt the turn of the twenty-first century, Selva J. Raj (1952–2008) was one of the most important scholars of popular Indian Christianity and South Asian religion in North America. Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints gathers together, for the first time in a single volume, a series of his groundbreaking studies on the distinctively “vernacular” Catholic traditions of Tamil Nadu in southeast India. This collection, which focuses on four rural shrines, highlights ritual variety and ritual transgression in Tamil Catholic practice and offers clues to the ritual exchange, religious hybridity, and dialogue occurring at the grassroots level between Tamil Catholics and their Hindu and Muslim neighbors. Raj also advances a new and alternative paradigm for interreligious dialogue that radically differs from models advocated by theologians, clergy, and other religious elite. In addition, essays by other leading scholars of Indian Christianity and South Asian religions―Michael Amaladoss, Purushottama Bilimoria, Corinne G. Dempsey, Eliza F. Kent, and Vasudha Narayanan―are included that amplify and creatively extend Raj’s work.

Dimensions: 25x16x4.4 cm. Region: Tamil Nadu, India

Dimensions: 25x16x4.4 cm. Region: Tamil Nadu, India

Fill the room with the potent floralcy of coveted jasmine sambac buds picked from Tamil Nadu's peaceful fields. Crafted in the British countryside in a black glass design. Burn time approx. 45 hours. Lid included. Fill weight 200g. The floralcy of jasmine sambac buds picked from Tamil Nadu's fields. Burn time approx. 45 hours Jo Malone London Jasmine Sambac & Marigold Home Candle - 200g

As dawn rises, coveted buds of jasmine sambac are picked from Tamil Nadu's peaceful fields and transported to the bustling flower market. Their potent floralcy contrasts with vibrant marigold, enveloped in the warmth of vanilla and amber. Enticing and opulent. An opulent floral scent inspired by coveted buds of jasmine at Tamil Nadu's bustling flower market Jo Malone London Jasmine Sambac & Marigold Cologne Intense - 100 ml

As dawn rises, coveted buds of jasmine sambac are picked from Tamil Nadu's peaceful fields and transported to the bustling flower market. Their potent floralcy contrasts with vibrant marigold, enveloped in the warmth of vanilla and amber. Enticing and opulent. An opulent floral scent inspired by coveted buds of jasmine at Tamil Nadu's bustling flower market Jo Malone London Jasmine Sambac & Marigold Cologne Intense - 50 ml

A rare Indian colony of the Danish empire. A place that fostered the modern printing press and Protestant Christianity in the subcontinent. A tourist haunt that was ravaged by the tsunami in 2004. This is Tranquebar, known as Tharangampadi, a charming coastal town in present-day Tamil Nadu. Beyond Tranquebar is a collection of twenty-four essays by scholars who bring to relief the many dimensions of this town. The book takes us to seventeenth-century Denmark, as the kingdom strives to find a place in the thriving colonial enterprise. It moves east to Maratha-ruled Tanjore where gifts can shift the balance of power. It takes us to a place where ideas, textiles and furniture arrive and depart, from as far away as Serampore in Bengal and Copenhagen in Denmark going beyond geography to contribute to literacy and education in India and alter tastes in distant Europe. This volume examines the place from the perspectives of a diverse range of academic disciplines social anthropology, art history, sociology of religion, ethnography and history. It enquires into the lives of natives and foreigners, i.e. Danish, German and British, as they grapple(d) across borders both physical and cultural, in the past and the present. This collection is unique in that it centres on activities which radiated from this important south Indian place, instead of seeing this place as an appendix to the national history of Denmark or to the Christian mission activities from Germany. Thereby, the authors and editors of this volume peg Tranquebar in its rightful place in the scholarly map. This book will be useful for students and scholars of colonial history, South Asian studies and anthropology. They will benefit from the diverse strands of research a seemingly small place offers.

A richly detailed and thoroughly researched biography of the beggar saint of Tamil Nadu--Yogi Ramsuratkumar (1918-2001). Filled with stories and personal accounts by those who knew the beggar well, this book reveals the life story of a saint unique even in the long history of India.