Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895

© 1994 The Regents of the University of California......Page 1
  Bibliography......Page 2
Preface......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 4
Transliteration and Other Conventions......Page 5
Maps......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Notes......Page 15
Creating Utopian Visions of Future Tax Revenues from the Jagir......Page 18
Tenant-Mirasidar Disputes during the Permanent Settlement......Page 20
Evoking a Decayed Present; Conciliating and Mediating......Page 24
Mirasidars Abandon Highly Taxed Land to Impoverish the State......Page 29
Mirasidar and Payirkkari Attempts to Dislodge Each Other......Page 30
Mirasidar Subversion of State Coercive Strategies......Page 33
Reintroduction of Heteroglot Consultatio to Reassess the District......Page 37
The Future as a Social and Economic Utopia......Page 39
Notes......Page 46
4. From Slaves to the Original Dravidians......Page 52
Categories of Social Dependence and Loyalty......Page 53
The Description of Poverty and Slavery as a Way to Sedentarize the Poor......Page 54
Invoking the Scientific Method......Page 56
Did the British Pauperize India?......Page 57
Had the British Impoverished Chingleput District?......Page 62
Fixing the Paraiyars in Their Houses......Page 64
Perceived Disorder of Paraiyar Settlements......Page 65
Redefining "Slavery" to Sedentarize the Paraiyar......Page 66
The Decay of the District and the Paraiyar Position......Page 69
Creating a New Pannaiyal System Out of the Old One......Page 71
The New Definition of the Paraiyars as the "Disinherited Children of the Soil"......Page 73
The New Paraiyar Body......Page 74
Notes......Page 80
Sedentarization, the State, and Its Citizens......Page 91
The Voices that Help to Create "Authentic Tamils"......Page 94
Implications of Heteroglossia and Historical Dialogue......Page 97
Notes......Page 100
Abbreviations......Page 103
India Office Library and Records, London......Page 104
Contemporary Published Works......Page 105
Periodicals and Newspapers......Page 108
Printed Books and Articles......Page 109