What Is a Record? Tamil Scribes in the Polyglot World of Early Colonial Madras

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What Is a Record? Tamil Scribes in the Polyglot World of Early Colonial Madras

Presented by Bhavani Raman, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University. Listen to the full recording here.

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