The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

Abstract

List of illustrations List of maps List of tables Preface Glossary of terms Map of the Madras Presidency, 1900 Map of Pudukkottai State The Tondaiman line of Pudukkottai Part I. Introduction: 1. The study of state and society in India Part II. History and Ethnohistory: 2. The historical context of the old regime 3. The discourse of kingship: representations of authority in the old regime Part III. A Little Kingdom 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 Part IV. Social Relations of a Little Kingdom: 7. Royal Kallars 8. Political hegemony and social relations: caste in Pudukkottai 9. Temples and society Part V. Colonial Mediations: Contradictions Under the Raj: 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 Part VI. Conclusion: 14. Ethnohistory and the Indian state Appendix: land and privilege: inams in Pudukkottai References List of records and abbreviations List of archives and record offices Index.