A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter
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Location of Chennai (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka ruler to acquire three square kilometers of land, bounded by the Adyar river and the Buckingham canal in the south and north respectively, on the beach ove
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Colour online) Street life on the Botermarkt. A picture postcard
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South India Addresses the World: Postcards, Circulation, and Empire
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A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter
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Archive of Vol. XVII No. 15, November 16-30, 2007 - Madras Musings
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South India Addresses the World: Postcards, Circulation, and Empire
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South India Addresses the World: Postcards, Circulation, and Empire
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South India Addresses the World: Postcards, Circulation, and Empire
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The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The
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