Hollow Crown : ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom
Dirks, Nicholas B.
Hollow Crown : ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom - Cambridge Cambridge University press 2008 - xxix,v,458,iip. - South Asian Studies .
Contents
List of illustrations ix
List of maps x
List of tables xi
Preface xiii
Glossary of terms xviii
Map of the Madras Presidency, 1900 xxix
Map of Pudukkottai State xxx
1 The Tondaiman line of Pudukkottai xxxi
Part I : Introduction
1 The study of state and society in India 3
Part 2 : History and ethnohistory
2 The historical context of the old regime 19
3 The discourse of kingship: representations of authority in the
old regime 55
Part 3 : A little kingdom in the old regime
4 Pudukkottai and the old regime: gift, order, and authority in
a south Indian little kingdom 111
5 The early history of the Pudukkottai region 139
6 Tondaiman Raj: 1686-1801 156
Part 4 : Social relations of a little kingdom
7 Royal Kallars 203
8 Political hegemony and social relations: caste in Pudukkottai 247
9 Temples and society 285
Part 5 : Colonial mediations: contradictions under the Raj
10 Agrarian rebellion? Last gasp of the old regime 309
11 The colonization of the political order: land settlements, political intervention, and structural change 324
12 Temples and conflict: the changing context of worship 358
13 The theatre state: princely politics in colonial south 384
Part 6 : Conclusion
14 Ethnohistory and the Indian state 401
Appendix:
Land and privilege: inams in Pudukkottai 407
References 435
List of records and abbreviations 447
List of archives and record offices 449
Index 450
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Hollow Crown : ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom - Cambridge Cambridge University press 2008 - xxix,v,458,iip. - South Asian Studies .
Contents
List of illustrations ix
List of maps x
List of tables xi
Preface xiii
Glossary of terms xviii
Map of the Madras Presidency, 1900 xxix
Map of Pudukkottai State xxx
1 The Tondaiman line of Pudukkottai xxxi
Part I : Introduction
1 The study of state and society in India 3
Part 2 : History and ethnohistory
2 The historical context of the old regime 19
3 The discourse of kingship: representations of authority in the
old regime 55
Part 3 : A little kingdom in the old regime
4 Pudukkottai and the old regime: gift, order, and authority in
a south Indian little kingdom 111
5 The early history of the Pudukkottai region 139
6 Tondaiman Raj: 1686-1801 156
Part 4 : Social relations of a little kingdom
7 Royal Kallars 203
8 Political hegemony and social relations: caste in Pudukkottai 247
9 Temples and society 285
Part 5 : Colonial mediations: contradictions under the Raj
10 Agrarian rebellion? Last gasp of the old regime 309
11 The colonization of the political order: land settlements, political intervention, and structural change 324
12 Temples and conflict: the changing context of worship 358
13 The theatre state: princely politics in colonial south 384
Part 6 : Conclusion
14 Ethnohistory and the Indian state 401
Appendix:
Land and privilege: inams in Pudukkottai 407
References 435
List of records and abbreviations 447
List of archives and record offices 449
Index 450
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954 / DIR