| 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 |
| • | The Construction of a Utopian Past and Future |
| • | Making Religion More Useful |
| • | Expressions of the New Religion |
| • | Uses of Violence and the Construction of the Asiatic Despot |
| • | Creating New Ideas of Leadership and Sacrality |
| • | Making the Jagir into a Garden as a Way to Connect the British to the Future |
| • | Formulating the Agricultural Past of Tondaimandalam |
| • | The Interactive Production of the Mirasi System |
| • | Notes |
| 3. The Rise and Consolidation of the Chingleput Mirasidars |
| 4. From Slaves to the Original Dravidians |
| 5. Conclusion |
| Abbreviations |
| Bibliography |