Kingship and political practice in colonial India

Abstract

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction 1. Honour, status and state formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Maravar country 2. Cosmological fragmentation in the public sphere 3. Domain formation in mid-nineteenth-century Ramnad 4. Human and divine palaces in the fragmentation of monarchical cosmology 5. Ritual performances, the ruling person and the public 6. Raja Baskara Setupati and the emergence of a new political style Conclusion Bibliography Index.