P S Shanmugam

Biographic Data

ID5880155
NAMEP S Shanmugam
GIVEN NAMESP S
FAMILY NAMEShanmugam
SIGNATURESHANMUGAM P S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Madras
ORCID0000-0001-9263-2133
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX0

  • Maṭha s and Medieval Religious Movements in Tamil Nadu

    Open AccessNoboru Karashima, Y Subbarayalu et al.ARTICLEIndian Historical Review2011

    This is a continuation and the concluding part of our epigraphical study on maṭhas and medieval religious movements in Tamil Nadu published in Indian Historical Review’s 2010 issue, in which we examined the inscriptions referring to maṭhas in order to learn about their activities during the four hundred years up to 1300 CE, covering the Chola period. In this study, we have examined the inscriptions for the next four centuries covering the Pandyan…

  • Tribal Land Alienation and Poverty in Tamil Nadu

    Open AccessP S Shanmugam, P ShanmugamARTICLEStudies of Tribes and Tribals2011

    Poverty is defined as material deprivation, isolation, dependence, land alienation, and insecurity. Access to land is of fundamental importance in rural India. The incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land, although the direction of causality in this relationship is not clear. Economically the tribes are the weakest section in the social hierarchy, so their poverty level too is high among these sections. Land is the on…

  • Maṭhas and Medieval Religious Movements in Tamil Nadu

    Open AccessNoboru Karashima, Y Subbarayalu et al.ARTICLEIndian Historical Review2010References: 3

    Maṭha (monastery) appears in Tamil inscriptions from the early ninth century and appears with increasing frequency from the eleventh century. This increase seems to have been brought about by an influx of Śaiva ascetics from North India. At the same time, maṭhas were closely related to the bhakti movement in South India during the Pallava and Pandyan period and played an important role during the Chola and Later Pandyan period in localising and T…

  • Nagaram during the Chola and Pandyan Period

    Open AccessNoboru Karashima, Y Subbarayalu et al.ARTICLEIndian Historical Review2008

    In medieval Tamil country, starting from the eighth-ninth centuries, nagaram was the town, where merchants conducted commercial activities, through a corporate body called either as nagaram or nagarattār. if has been studied to some extent by some scholars in the context of the elucidation of medieval state structure and social formation. In the past studies, however, the relations between the state and nagarattār and those between nagarattār and…