| Dialogue and History |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgements |
| Transliteration and Other Conventions |
| Maps |
 | Introduction |
| 1. To Fix the People to Their Respective Villages |
| 2. Using the Past to Create the Future |
 | 3. The Rise and Consolidation of the Chingleput Mirasidars |
| • | Creating Utopian Visions of Future Tax Revenues from the Jagir |
| • | Tenant-Mirasidar Disputes during the Permanent Settlement |
| • | Evoking a Decayed Present; Conciliating and Mediating |
| • | Mirasidars Abandon Highly Taxed Land to Impoverish the State |
| • | Mirasidar and Payirkkari Attempts to Dislodge Each Other |
| • | Mirasidar Subversion of State Coercive Strategies |
| • | Reintroduction of Heteroglot Consultatio to Reassess the District |
| • | The Future as a Social and Economic Utopia |
| • | Notes |
| 4. From Slaves to the Original Dravidians |
| 5. Conclusion |
| Abbreviations |
| Bibliography |