TY  - GEN
AU  - Dirks, Nicholas B.
TI  - Hollow Crown : ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom
SN  - 9780521053723
U1  - 954 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University press
KW  -  
N1  - 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
ER  -