The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

by Nicholas B. Dirks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521053722
• ISBN13: 9780521053723
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"