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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 October 2009
      31 March 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511557989
      9780521053723
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511557989
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.594kg, 500 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Anthropology
      Series:
      Cambridge South Asian Studies (39)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian History, Asian Studies, Anthropology
    Series:
    Cambridge South Asian Studies (39)
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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.

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