The Hollow Crown

Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

By:

Nicholas B. Dirks

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge South Asian Studies

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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.

Release date Australia

December 3rd, 2007

Author

Nicholas B. Dirks

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

500

Series

Cambridge South Asian Studies

Dimensions

140x215x25

ISBN-13

9780521053723

Product ID

2461218

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