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The hollow crown : ethnohistory of an Indian kingdom / Nicholas B. Dirks.
- Title
- The hollow crown : ethnohistory of an Indian kingdom / Nicholas B. Dirks.
- Author
- Dirks, Nicholas B., 1950-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1993.
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Details
- Description
- xliv, 430 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Previously published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 047208187X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^93031920^
- OCLC
- 1013269296
- SCSB-11861689
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library