The Imperial British Census And The Social Construction Of Madras 1871-1941

This book introduces the first census undertaken by the danes in trenquebar in 1790 and the second census in 1834. it also traces the first census of pondicherry and karaikal held in 1822-1825 by the french.

S. Jeyaseela Stephen is Directeur, Institut pour études Indo-Européennes. He was Professor of Maritime History (2001-13) at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He has authored numerous books on the maritime history of early modern India including The Coromandel Coast and its Hinterland: Economy, Society and Political System, 1500-1600 (1997); Expanding Portuguese Empire and the Tamil Economy, Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries (2009); Oceanscapes: Tamil Textiles in the Early Modern World (2014); A Meeting of the Minds: European and Tamil Encounters in Modern Sciences, 1507-1857 (2016); Tranquebar in Global History, 1620-1801: The Coromandel Coast and Europe in a World Network System (2020); and From European Dwelling Settlements to Global Cities: Ports of the Tamil Coast and the Colonial Modernity (2021). 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.