Discovering Tamil Nadu
This is a selection of resources on Tamil Nadu available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet and is not meant to be an exhaustive list.
NLB print and digital resources
Muthuvel Karunanidhi was the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for five terms and leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) for over five decades. He is remembered as a strong leader who made invaluable contributions to the development of Tamil Nadu and to Tamil language and culture. This eBook (2021) delves into the life and times of this charismatic figure in the history of Tamil Nadu and India.
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The strangeness of Tamil Nadu: Contemporary history and political culture in South India
This book seeks to bring a historical understanding of what the author calls the “strangeness” of Tamil Nadu. This strangeness is attributed to the peculiarities of the Dravidian politics of Tamil Nadu. The book is organised chronologically as well as along thematic sections that reflect the themes of Dravidian ideology – linguistic identity, state politics, religion and caste.
All rights reserved, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2019.
Tamil is described as “one of the great world languages, with its 80 million speakers, its ancient classical past, and the profound richness of its cultural traditions, which has spread throughout South Asia and beyond, to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, and today, to a large Tamil diaspora scattered around the globe.” This book explores two millennia of south Indian Tamil civilisation, with a special emphasis on the way Tamil speakers and literati understood the unique features of their language, and the major cultural themes articulated in Tamil over this time span.
All rights reserved, London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Southern India: A guide to monuments sites & museums
The major Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and European historical monuments and sites of Tamil Nadu as well as other southern Indian states are covered in this travel guide. Features detailed descriptions of forts and palaces, temple architecture, sculptures and paintings, mosques and tombs, churches, as well as civic buildings.
All rights reserved, New Delhi: Lotus Collection, 2013.
The great temple at Thanjavur: One thousand years, 1010–2010
The Brihadishvara temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu was built more than a thousand years ago, in the year 1010 by King Raja Raja Chola I. The genius of Rajaraja’s architect, who conceived and executed this stupendous structural feat, and the multifarious talents of the numerous artists employed to work on its stone carvings and mural paintings, are still apparent today. The temple is the supreme achievement of the Chola era and is indeed, one of the greatest masterpieces of Hindu architecture and art in the whole of India.
All rights reserved, Mumbai: Marg Foundation, 2010.
Inclusive growth and education have been the priority of successive Tamil Nadu governments. This article reports that Tamil Nadu is tied in third place with Himachal Pradesh on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) dashboard. The health of the state is what stood it in good stead during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tamil Nadu was one of the few states that did not register negative growth in the period.
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Tamil Nadu adapts and accelerates
Tamil Nadu is one of India’s most industrialised states and its traditional strengths in technology and education have helped it to become an IT and software hub. With a US$229 billion economy, Tamil Nadu has one of the biggest economies of any state in India. It experienced an economic growth of 12.5 percent in 2018 with total FDI inflows amounting to US$30.7 billion between 2000 and 2019.
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How Jayalalithaa turned Tamil Nadu into one of the country’s largest economies
This article reports that Tamil Nadu is among India’s five largest economies, with former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa turning the state into an attractive destination for foreign investment. She enacted industry-friendly policies which ensured that the state was always in the forefront of huge investments in the manufacturing sector – from mobile handsets to automobile factories.
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Tamil Nadu: Plan for $ 1tn economy by 2030 laid out
The Tamil Nadu government announced the state’s plan to make it a US$1 trillion economy by 2030 from around US$265 billion in 2022. The services sector will be a major focus area as well as emerging sectors such as aerospace and defence, e-vehicles, electronic manufacturing, and petrochemicals.
Between 2015-16 and 2020-21, Tamil Nadu’s Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) expanded at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.56 percent to reach US$ 265.49 billion. Tamil Nadu has a diversified manufacturing sector and ranks first among the Indian states in terms of number of factories and industrial workers.
Tamil Nadu top 50 tourist places
This video features exciting tourist spots in Tamil Nadu including the ancient sculptures of Mahabalipuram, Meenakshi Amman temple in Madurai, Kodaikanal hill resort, Coonoor waterfalls, Thanjavur palaces and paintings, Mudumalai National Park and Velankanni Church.
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