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... Dumont , whose writings about the caste system in India announced the encompassment of the political by the religious ( and could be traced back to his wonderful thick ethnography of a different group of Kallars in a part of Tamil Nadu ...
... Dumont , whose writings about the caste system in India announced the encompassment of the political by the religious ( and could be traced back to his wonderful thick ethnography of a different group of Kallars in a part of Tamil Nadu ...
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... Dumont . In any case , as I argued throughout the pages of The Hollow Crown , these historical questions have to be posed in relentless debate with the catego- ries and assumptions of colonial sociology , since the more things change ...
... Dumont . In any case , as I argued throughout the pages of The Hollow Crown , these historical questions have to be posed in relentless debate with the catego- ries and assumptions of colonial sociology , since the more things change ...
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... Dumont is the most compelling target for this critique , both because of the ambition of his civilizational claims and because he made them in large part on the basis of ethnographic work on a group of Kallars in an area of southern ...
... Dumont is the most compelling target for this critique , both because of the ambition of his civilizational claims and because he made them in large part on the basis of ethnographic work on a group of Kallars in an area of southern ...
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... Dumont describes so well is one that was literally created by colonialism , with caste serving as the colonial form of civil society under the determination of religious value , with Kallars identified now only as thiefs and never as ...
... Dumont describes so well is one that was literally created by colonialism , with caste serving as the colonial form of civil society under the determination of religious value , with Kallars identified now only as thiefs and never as ...
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... Dumont . Caste became the essence of Indian culture and civiliza- tion through historical process , under colonial rule . But this , again , is only one part of the story , told here through many disciplines , with many voices , in ...
... Dumont . Caste became the essence of Indian culture and civiliza- tion through historical process , under colonial rule . But this , again , is only one part of the story , told here through many disciplines , with many voices , in ...
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Aiyanar amarakarars ampalam areas authority became Brahmans British bureaucratic central Cervai Cervaikarars Cettiyars Cetupati chiefs Cola colonial context cultural Dasara deity disputes Diwan dominant caste Dumont eighteenth century emblems festival fieldwork forms gifts given goddess granted headman hierarchy important Inam Settlement inscriptions jagir Jagirdar jivitams Kallars kaniyatci karais Kattapomman kingship Konatu kuppam land lineage little kingdom little kings Madras Madurai maniyam Maravars mariyatai marriage means military miracidars Nawab Nayakas nineteenth century old regime overlord palace palaiyakkarars Pallava Pallavaraiyar Pantiyan Paraiyars particular patikkaval performed Poligar political relations position privileges protection Pudukkottai puja Raja Raja's Ramanatapuram Rayar region relationship revenue ritual royal family royal subcaste rule settled settlement officers share social society south India sovereignty status structure Tamil country Tamil Nadu Tanjavur temple honors territorial Tirunelveli Tondaiman traditions uriyakarars Uttumalai Valaiyars vamcavalis Vellalars Vijayanagara village Visvanatha VN Kallars worship zamindars
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Page 3 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
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Page 3 - If one tries to erect a theory of power one will always be obliged to view it as emerging at a given place and time and hence to deduce it, to reconstruct its genesis. But if power is in reality an open, more-or-less coordinated (in the event, no doubt, ill-coordinated) cluster of relations, then the only problem is to provide oneself with a grid of analysis, which makes possible an analytic of relations of power.