(A) Concise history of South India : issues and interpretations / edited by Noboru Karashima

Include abbreviation, bibliographies and index.

Prologue : Dravidians - immigrant or indigenous / Noboru Karashima -- BEFORE THE COMMON ERA ;' BEGINNINGS OF SOUTH INDIAN HISTORY : Prehistoric cultures / P. Shanmugam -- Megalithic burials and graffiti / Y. Subbarayalu -- Beginnings of south India history / Noboru Karashima -- The Brahmi script and south Indian languages / Y. Subbarayalu -- FIRST CENTURY BCE TO FIFTY CENTURY CE : THE SATAVAHANAS, THE EARLY TAMIL POLITIES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS : The satavahanas in the deccan / Y. Subbarayalu -- Sangam and post-Sangam literature / Y. Subbarayalu -- Early Tamil polity / Y. Subbarayalu -- Post-Satavahana and post-Sangam politics / Y. Subbarayalu -- Religion and religious monuments in early south India / Y. Subbarayalu -- Roman trade and contacts with Southeast Asia / Noboru Karashima -- SIXTH CENTURY TO NINTH CENTURY : THE NEW TYPE STATES AND THE BHAKTI MOVEMENT : The emergence of a new type of state / Noboru Karashima -- Agrarian developments / Noboru Karashima -- Capitals and temples / Noboru Karashima -- Capitals and temples / P. Shanmugam -- The Bhakti movement / Noboru Karashima -- Women in premodern south Indian society / R. Mahalakshmi -- THE TENTH TO TWELFTH CENTURIES : THE EMERGENCE OF A CENTRALIZED STATE : The balance of two power / Noboru Karashima -- The Chole state / Noboru Karashima -- Changes in the landholding system and society / Noboru Karashima -- Maritime trade and merchant activities / Noboru Karashima -- States in the deccan and Kerala / Noboru Karashima -- Religion and society / Noboru Karashima -- Language and literature / Hiroshi Yamashita -- Temples and sculpture / R. Mahalakshmi -- THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES : PERIOD OF SOCIAL CHANGES AND TRANSITION : The fall of the old states / Noboru Karashima -- Emergence of new jatis and supra-local / community organizations / Noboru Karashima -- Mathas, Saivasiddhantism and Virasaivism / Noboru Karashima -- FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : VIJAYANAGAR STATE AND THE WIDER WORLD : Vijayanagar and the sultanates in the deccan / Noboru Karashima -- Vijayanagar state and the nayakas / Noboru Karashima -- Development of trade and industry / Noboru Karashima -- 'Hindu sultan' and the religions / Noboru Karashima -- Architecture and sculpture / P. Shanmugam -- The nayaka states and the emergence of new ethos / Noboru Karashima -- The coming of the Europeans / Nobuhiro Ota -- EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES : BRITISH RULE AND INDIAN SOCIETY : RELIGIOUS STATEA : The deccan sultanates and the hegemony of the Mughals / Nobuhiro Ota -- Successor state : Hyderabad / Keiko Yamada -- Successor state : Mysore / Nobuhiro Ota -- Successor state : Tanjore / Takako Inous -- Successor state : Travancore / Toshie Awaya Economy and society / Nobuhiro Ota -- THE COLONIZATION OF SOUTH INDIA : THE EAST INDIA COMPANIES AND THE WARS : The fourtune of the native powers and the Carnatic wars / Nobuhiro Ota -- The rise of the Mysore kingdom and the Mysore wars / Nobuhiro Ota -- Incorporation into the global economy / Tuskasan Mizushima -- COLONIAL FORMATION : Mirasidars and colonial land system / Tuskasan Mizushima -- Colonial administration and education policy / Miwako Shiga -- RESPONSES TO COLONIAN FORMATION : Landholders in the nineteenth century / Tuskasan Mizushima -- The south Indian cotton industry / Haruka Yanagisawa -- Changes in agrarian society / Haruka Yanagisawa -- Social movements : the Tamil Renaissance and new identities / Miwako Shiga -- The decline of the matrilineal system in modern Kerala / Toshie Awaya -- TWENTIETH CENTURY : INDEPENDENCE AND AFTER : TOWARD INDEPENDENCE : POLITICES, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY : The non-Brahimn movement / Miwako Shiga -- The women's movement in pre-independence south India / Parvathi Menon -- The south Indian economy before independence / Haruka Yanagisawa -- The Devdasi issue / Takako Inoue -- New trends in music / Takako Inoue -- INDEPENDENCE AND AFTER : POLITICS, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY : The language issue and the reorganization of states / Keiko Yamada -- States politics in Tamil Nadu / Miwako Shiga -- States politics in Andhra Predesh / Keiko Yamada -- The women's movement in post-independence south India / Parvathi Menon -- Industrial growth and agrarian change / Haruka Yanagisawa -- Cinema and television / Takako Inoue -- Epilogue : southern spice - seasoning the national cuisine / Noboru Karashima