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The Hollow Crown - Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,505
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The Hollow Crown - Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Paperback): Nicholas B. Dirks

The Hollow Crown - Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (Paperback)

Nicholas B. Dirks

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.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge South Asian Studies
Release date: December 2007
First published: November 2007
Authors: Nicholas B. Dirks
Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-05372-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 0-521-05372-2
Barcode: 9780521053723

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