Rule of the Commoner DMK and the Formations of the Political in Tamil Nadu, 1949–1967

Rajan Kurai Krishnan, Ravindran Sriramachandran, V.M.S. Subagunarajan Cambridge University Press Rs.950

This book traces how the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s strategy of combining Dravidian identity and allegiance to Tamil appealed to a federalist imagination, and “led to a counter hegemonic formation of the plebes and Left populism”.