This book provides a rich survey of the Mayor’s Court, the Recorders’ Court,
the Supreme Court, the Military Court, the general hospital, the military hospital, the lunatic asylum, the botanical garden, the agri-horticultural society, the high school, the school of art, university of Madras, the astronomical observatory, the museum and the photographical society that came into existence newly in Madras and developed under the English Company. The study traverses a vast canvas of the colonial activities of these institutions as exported wholesale from London. The volume highlights the complex process of colonialism by which the English Company confronted and conquered the space and peoples and thereby gained the British presence and how Madras was transformed into colonial city and indeed got created and recreated.
THE BRITISH COLONIAL GAME PLAYED AND DISPLAYED IN MADRAS THROUGH INSTITUTIONS AND THE LONG TERM IMPACT, 1642-1898
Jeyaseela Stephen is former directeur, Institut pour études Indo-Européennes (2013-2023). He was Professor of Maritime History (2001-2013) at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has authored numerous books on the maritime history of early modern India. His books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, German and Tamil. He is the recipient of the Best Book Prize of the Year 1999 from the Government of Tamil Nadu. He received the Thiru Vi. Ka Award of 2023 by the Government of Tamil Nadu.
