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100			_aDirks, Nicholas B
245			_aThe hollow crown : ethnohistory of an Indian kingdom _cby Nicholas B. Dirks
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c©1987
300			_axix, 458 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 435-446) and index.
505			_t1. introduction
505			_t2. History and ethnohistory
505			_t3. A little kingdom in the old regime
505			_t4. Social relations of a little kingdom
505			_t5. Colonial mediations : contradictions under the raj
505			_t6. Conclusion.
520			_aA pioneering piece of ethnohistory, The Hollow Crown uses a variety of interdisciplinary means to reconstruct the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries. Central to the book is the belief that comparative sociology has systematically denied the importance of the Indian state and obscured the political basis of Indian society by representing caste as fundamentally a religious system. In reconstructing the history of the polity that eventually became the colonial princely state of Pudukkottai, Dr Dirks therefore raises a whole series of issues concerning the methodologies of history and anthropology, the character of Tamil kingship and social organization, the relationship between politics and ritual, the impact of colonialism and 'modernization', and the dynamics of the whole last millennium of south Indian history.
650			_aEthnology -- India -- Pudukkottai (Princely State)
650			_a"History of Tamil Nadu"
650			_a"Vijaya Raghunatha Raya Tondaiman II"
650			_a"Ramachandra Tondaiman"
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