This paper makes a specific attempt of locating Kanara in the Indo-Jewish historiography. It finds the need to distinguish between Kanara and Malabar as two distinct entities of south western India to achieve clarity while ...

The early half of the nineteenth century saw the birth and growth of the British judicial system in the Madras Presidency which included South Kanara. The present paper is an attempt to examine some crucial aspects of the ...

The historiography of colonial India is a cornucopia. The Imperialist, Nationalist, Marxist, Cambridge and Subaltern scholars have contributed immensely to the understanding of British colonial working in India, its impact ...

This paper analyses the land revenue administration and the resultant agrarian relations in the region of South Kanara from 1799 to 1862. Sir Thomas Munro was appointed as the first Collector of the region and the land ...