Miners and Millhands: Work, Culture, and Politics in Princely Mysore

This pioneering work is a comparative study of the work processes, culture and politics of two major centres of industrial production in Princely Mysore - Bangalore and the Kolar Gold Fields - in the first half of the twentieth century. Janaki Nair develops a unique perspective on the relations of power and authority which were forged in a princely state under colonial rule.