Kumaraswami Kamaraj*1976Kumaraswami Kamaraj (born July 15, 1903, Virudunagar, India—died October 2, 1975, Madras [now Chennai]) was an Indian independence activist and statesman who rose from humble beginnings to become a legislator in the Madras Presidency (an administrative unit of British In...
Islands were critical in birthing our modern world, and yet they have often been forgotten in our accounts of world history. Because of their rigid boundaries and small territories, islands were subject to intensive processes of cultural encounter, political annexation and settlement, making them part...