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The Hollow Crown

The Hollow Crown

Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

by Nicholas B. Dirks
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/12/2007

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A 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.
ISBN:
9780521053723
9780521053723
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-12-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
500
Dimensions (mm):
215x140x25mm
Weight:
0.59kg

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