| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
xxviii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-418) and index. |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- India -- Pudukkottai (Princely State)
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Pudukkottai (Princely State) -- History.
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| ISBN |
047208187X paperback alkaline paper |
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