The hollow crown: ethnohistory of an Indian kingdom
Print Book, English, 1993
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1993
History
430 pages
9780472081875, 047208187X
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Map of the Madras Presidency, 1900
Map of Pudukkottai State
The Tondaiman line of Pudukkottai
1. The study of state and society in India
2. The historical context of the old regime
3. The discourse of kingship: representations of authority in the old regime
4. Pudukkottai and the old regime: gift, order, and authority in a south Indian little kingdom
5. The early history of the Pudukkottai region
6. Tondaiman Raj: 1686-1801
7. Royal Kallars
8. Political hegemony and social relations: caste in Pudukkottai
9. Temples and society
10. Agrarian rebellion? Last gasp of the old regime
11. The colonization of the political order: land settlements, political intervention, and structural change
12. Temples and conflict: the changing context of worship
13. The theatre state: princely politics in colonial south India
14. Ethnohistory and the Indian state
Previously published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987