TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krishnan,Rajan Kurai
AU  - Sriramachandran,Ravindran
AU  - Subagunarajan,V.M.S.
TI  - Rule of the commoner: DMK and the formations of the political in Tamil Nadu, 1949-1967 
T2  - Metamorphoses of the political: multidisciplinary approaches
SN  - 9781009197168
U1  - 324.254083095482 
PY  - 2022///
KW  - Populism
KW  - India
KW  - Tamil Nadu
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Tamil Nadu (India)
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Two scenes of departure -- Ideation -- Construction of 'Dravidian-Tamil' people -- The uses of language -- Human immanence -- Left populism -- Imagination -- The play is the thing -- Critical hermeneutics -- Counter-narratives -- Power of fiction -- Mobilization -- The grassroots -- The waves -- The eruption -- The climb
N2  - "This book seeks to explain the different aspects of DMK in Tamil Nadu in terms of populist mobilization rooted in a regional subaltern identity"--
ER  -