Niels Brimnes

• ConventionsAbbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction2. South Indian Society: a Dynamic Interpretation 3. Madras 1700-20: Indigenous Leaders Competing for Honours and Commerce 4. Madras in the 1780s: Caste Disputes in an Expanding Colonial Context 5. Tranquebar in the 1780s: Suppremannia Chetti’s Challenge to the Social Order 1036. British-Occupied Pondicherry 1794: Unsettled Authority 7. Madras 1800-20: Caste Disputes in the ‘Capital of Kingdoms’ 8. Tranquebar 1815-25: Caste Disputes in a Nineteenth-Century Backwater 9. Madras Presidency 1800-50: Caste Disputes under Judicial Management 10. Conclusion Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Castes and Caste Names BibliographyIndex

Niels Brimnes

• ConventionsAbbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction2. South Indian Society: a Dynamic Interpretation 3. Madras 1700-20: Indigenous Leaders Competing for Honours and Commerce 4. Madras in the 1780s: Caste Disputes in an Expanding Colonial Context 5. Tranquebar in the 1780s: Suppremannia Chetti’s Challenge to the Social Order 1036. British-Occupied Pondicherry 1794: Unsettled Authority 7. Madras 1800-20: Caste Disputes in the ‘Capital of Kingdoms’ 8. Tranquebar 1815-25: Caste Disputes in a Nineteenth-Century Backwater 9. Madras Presidency 1800-50: Caste Disputes under Judicial Management 10. Conclusion Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Castes and Caste Names BibliographyIndex

Niels Brimnes

• ConventionsAbbreviations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction2. South Indian Society: a Dynamic Interpretation 3. Madras 1700-20: Indigenous Leaders Competing for Honours and Commerce 4. Madras in the 1780s: Caste Disputes in an Expanding Colonial Context 5. Tranquebar in the 1780s: Suppremannia Chetti’s Challenge to the Social Order 1036. British-Occupied Pondicherry 1794: Unsettled Authority 7. Madras 1800-20: Caste Disputes in the ‘Capital of Kingdoms’ 8. Tranquebar 1815-25: Caste Disputes in a Nineteenth-Century Backwater 9. Madras Presidency 1800-50: Caste Disputes under Judicial Management 10. Conclusion Appendix A: Glossary Appendix B: Castes and Caste Names BibliographyIndex