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Page xiii
... chiefs , who grew to dominate the political landscape of southern India during and after the last great Hindu empire of Vijayanagara , which held sway over peninsular India from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries . I spent ...
... chiefs , who grew to dominate the political landscape of southern India during and after the last great Hindu empire of Vijayanagara , which held sway over peninsular India from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries . I spent ...
Page xxxiv
... chief under Vijayanagara . ampalam : local big man , usually headman of caste , subcaste , lineage , and / or village . ampaṭṭan : barber . Ampu Natu : the ... chiefs or other great men . ayan : non - inam , lands that were fully xxxiv VI.
... chief under Vijayanagara . ampalam : local big man , usually headman of caste , subcaste , lineage , and / or village . ampaṭṭan : barber . Ampu Natu : the ... chiefs or other great men . ayan : non - inam , lands that were fully xxxiv VI.
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... chiefs , given lands but only rarely retainers . Kurumpar : caste group , considered to be aboriginal inhabitants of ... chief , often kinsman of the royal family , used in Deccan regimes from Satavahanas and Rastrakutas up through ...
... chiefs , given lands but only rarely retainers . Kurumpar : caste group , considered to be aboriginal inhabitants of ... chief , often kinsman of the royal family , used in Deccan regimes from Satavahanas and Rastrakutas up through ...
Page xl
... chief , corrupted by the British into poligar and polegar . pāļaiyam : literally armed camps , the domains over which the palaiyak- karars ruled . pāļaiyappaṭṭu : the title or right to a palaiyam . Pallar : one of the two major ...
... chief , corrupted by the British into poligar and polegar . pāļaiyam : literally armed camps , the domains over which the palaiyak- karars ruled . pāļaiyappaṭṭu : the title or right to a palaiyam . Pallar : one of the two major ...
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... chiefs who had vast numbers of retainers under them . Valaiyar : caste group on the low end of the scale extensively settled in the more forested regions of Pudukkottai . Vallampar : locally dominant caste settled in the southeastern ...
... chiefs who had vast numbers of retainers under them . Valaiyar : caste group on the low end of the scale extensively settled in the more forested regions of Pudukkottai . Vallampar : locally dominant caste settled in the southeastern ...
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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 411 - A View of the English Interests in India; and an Account of the military Operations in the southern Parts of the Peninsula, during the Campaigns of 1782, 1783, and 1784.
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.