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21 avril 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifp.7941
- isbn: 9788184701166
- eisbn: 9791036556210
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littérature tamoule langue tamoule langues dravidiennes Tamil literature Tamil language Dravidian languages South India Asian Studies Humanities, Multidisciplinary HIS003000 LIT008000 DSB HBJFSujets proches
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A.R. Venkatachalapathy, « Triumph of Tobacco: The Tamil Experience », Institut Français de Pondichéry, ID : 10.4000/books.ifp.7941
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Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [tobacco] conquered the whole world, and enjoyed even greater popularity than tea or coffee, which was no mean achievement. Fernand Braudel, The Structures of Everyday Life, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992, p. 261. Tobacco, along with pineapple, cashew nut, papaya, guava, chillies and potatoes, came with the Portuguese to India in the sixteenth century. But tobacco has become so much a part of Indian society, that,...