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9780700711062

Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India

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  • ISBN13:

    9780700711062

  • ISBN10:

    0700711066

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-12-18
  • Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

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Summary

This study offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period.

Table of Contents

Conventions vi
Abbreviations vii
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction
1(16)
South Indian Society: a Dynamic Interpretation
17(41)
Madras 1700-20: Indigenous Leaders Competing for Honours and Commerce
58(23)
Madras in the 1780s: Caste Disputes in an Expanding Colonial Context
81(22)
Tranquebar in the 1780s: Suppremannia Chetti's Challenge to the Social Order
103(22)
British-Occupied Pondicherry 1794: Unsettled Authority
125(14)
Madras 1800-20: Caste Disputes in the `Capital of Kingdoms'
139(49)
Tranquebar 1815-25: Caste Disputes in a Nineteenth-Century Backwater
188(32)
Madras Presidency 1800-50: Caste Disputes under Judicial Management
220(19)
Conclusion
239(8)
Appendix A: Glossary 247(8)
Appendix B: Castes and Caste Names 255(6)
Bibliography 261(11)
Index 272

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