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082			_a954 _bDIR
100			_aDirks, Nicholas B. _969570
245			_aHollow Crown : ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University press _c2008
300			_axxix,v,458,iip.
440			_aSouth Asian Studies _967364
505			_aContents 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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