The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom (repost)
The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom By Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher: C=U=P 2007 | 500 Pages | ISBN: 0521053722 | PDF | 10 MB
Publisher: C=U=P 2007 | 500 Pages | ISBN: 0521053722 | PDF | 10 MB
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.