About the Author

T K Venkatasubramanian teaches at the Department of History, University of Delhi. He is the author of Political Change and Agrarian Tradition in South India, 1600-1800 (1986), Environment and Urbanisation in Early Tamilakam (1988), Societas to Civitas: Evolution of Political Society in South India (1993) and co-author of Rhythm in Historical Cognition (1993). He has also co-edited Negotiating India's Past: Essays in Memory of Partha Sarathi Gupta (2003) and edited Telephonic Counselling in University System (2005).