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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Author's Preface to the Second Impression
Introduction
Plan of the Book
1 Knowledge of India and Human Agency
1.1 Essences
1.1.1 Science's Imperial Metaphor - Society as a Mechanical Body
1.1.2 Indology as Natural Science
1.1.3 Metaphysical Malaise at Science's Summit
1.2 Agents: Systems of Overlapping Classes
1.2.1 Agents Simple and Complex
1.2.2 From 'Society' to Polities
1.2.3 Imperial Formations
1.2.4 Knowledge as a Scale of Forms
1.3 Orientalist Discourse
1.3.1 Bias, Power, and Knowledge
1.3.2 Commentative Accounts
1.3.3 Explanatory or Interpretive Accounts
1.3.4 Hegemonic Accounts
2 India in Asia: The Caste Society
2.1 The Orients
2.2 Empirical, Real India: The Ruling Ideas
2.2.1 Oriental Despotism and the Asiatic Mode of Production
2.2.2 Conquest and the Unmaking of India
2.2.3 Caste as Race
2.3 Romantic India
2.3.1 The Loyal Opposition
2.3.2 Caste as Idea
2.4 Dissenting and Changing Views
3 Hinduism: The Mind of India
3.1 Male Manager, Female Jungle: European Science and Indian Religion
3.2 Psychic Origins
3.2.1 Utilitarian and Anglican Distortions
3.2.2 Romantic and Rationalist Dreams
3.3 Brahmanism, the Aryan Mind in the Tropics
3.3.1 Vedic Sacrifice as Displaced Materialism
3.3.2 Upanishadic Mysticism as Misguided Idealism
3.3.3 Sankara, Hero of the Imagination
3.4 Hinduism, Symbols for the People
3.4.1 The Theistic Creeds and Image-worship of the Laity
3.4.2 The Animistic Cults and Blood Sacrifices of the Peasants
3.5 Medieval Decline, The Dravidian Mind Triumphant
3.6 Jungian and Structuralists: Today's Variants
3.7 Critical Summary
4 Village India, Living Essence of the Ancient
4.1 Idyllic Communities
4.2 Organic Inside, Atomic Outside
4.2.1 Marx: Asiatic Communes and Rural Mentalities
4.2.2 Maine and the Aryan Village Brotherhood
4.2.3 Baden-Powell and the Dravidian Severalty Village
4.3 Caste's Political Economy
4.3.1 Fixed Share Payments (Jajmani)
4.3.2 Councils and Headmen
4.4 Nationalist and Post-Independence Depictions
4.4.1 From Early Ancient Tribal to Late Ancient Socialist
4.4.2 Neo-Hegelian Anthropology
4.4.3 Neo-Marxist History
4.5 Critique
5 Divine Kingship, the Hindu Type of Government
5.1 Nation State, Natural State
5.2 Absolute Monarchy, Instrument of the Caste Society
5.2.1 Utilitarian Despotism
5.2.2 Political Disunity, Priestly Tyranny
5.3 Clan Monarchy, the Post-tribal State
5.3.1 Oriental Feudalism: Tod's Rajputs
5.3.2 From Feudal to Tribal
5.4 Imperial Monarchy, Western Order in the East
5.4.1 Administrative Despotism
5.4.2 From Ancient Unity to Medieval Anarchy
5.5 Imperial Death and National Rebirth
5.5.1 One or Many, Contract or Dharma?
5.5.2 Bureaucracy Above, Democracy Below
5.6 Independence and the Discovery of the Third World
5.6.1 From Administration Unity to Cultural Integration
5.6.2 Where Caste is King: L. Dumont
5.6.3 Transcendent Brahman, Social Disorder, Sacrificial King: J. C. Heesterman
5.6.4 Segmentary State, Ritual Sovereignty: Burton Stein
5.6.5 Conclusion
6 Reconstructions
6.1 From Patients to Agents
6.1.1 Eurasia's Four Imperial Formations
6.1.2 Castes as Subject-citizenries
6.1.3 Assemblies of the Rural Citizenry
6.1.4 Assemblies of the Urban Citizenry
6.2 The Imperial Formation of the Rashtrakutas
6.2.1 Holding Court and Issuing Orders
6.2.2 Ceremonial Baths and Luminous Wills
6.2.3 Kings, Lords, and Officials
6.3 Conquering the Quarters
6.3.1 From Tributary Lord to Overlord of the Earth
6.3.2 Displaying a New Overlordship
6.3.3 Commanding and Remaking Time
6.3.4 Recentring the Indian World
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
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