Tirunelveli 1923: The Ravanasamudram Weaving Village Cluster

David Ludden, Tirunelveli 1823 essays

1996    “Caste Society and Units of Production in Early Modern South India,” in Institutions and Economic Change in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.  Editors: Burton Stein and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp.105-133.

            “Tirunelveli in the Economic History of Early-Modern India,” in History and Society: Essays in Honour of Professor S.Kadhirvel, edited by K.A.Manikumar. Madras. 1996. pp.69-87

1995    “Urbanism and Early Modernity in the Tirunelveli Region,” Bengal Past and Present, 114, Parts 1-2, Nos.218-219, 9-40.

1990    “World Economy and Village India, 1600‑1900: Exploring the Agrarian History of Capitalism.” In South Asia and World Capitalism. Edited by Sugata Bose. Oxford University Press, Delhi, pp.159‑77.

1989    “Asiatic States and Agrarian Economies: Agrarian Commercialism in South India, 1700‑1850,” Calcutta Historical Journal, 13, 1‑2, 112‑137.

1988    “Agrarian Commercialism in Eighteenth Century South India: Evidence from the 1823 Tirunelveli Census,” Indian Economic and Social History Review, 25, 4, 493‑519. Reprinted in Merchants, Markets and the State in Early Modern India. Edited by Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Oxford University Press, Themes in Indian History, Delhi, 1990, 215‑241.

Links to the data

GoogleEarth file with all the (identifiable) 4taluk villagess and the Ravanasamudra Area cluster of weaving villages marked in PURPLE

Here is the 1823 data for the Ravanavasamudram Area cluster of weaving villages

Here is a doc file that summarizes the loom data for the 4taluks described in my Tirunelveli 1823 essays