| 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 |
 | 4. From Slaves to the Original Dravidians |
| • | Categories of Social Dependence and Loyalty |
| • | The Description of Poverty and Slavery as a Way to Sedentarize the Poor |
| • | Invoking the Scientific Method |
| • | Did the British Pauperize India? |
| • | Had the British Impoverished Chingleput District? |
| • | Fixing the Paraiyars in Their Houses |
| • | Perceived Disorder of Paraiyar Settlements |
| • | Redefining "Slavery" to Sedentarize the Paraiyar |
| • | The Decay of the District and the Paraiyar Position |
| • | Creating a New Pannaiyal System Out of the Old One |
| • | The New Definition of the Paraiyars as the "Disinherited Children of the Soil" |
| • | The New Paraiyar Body |
| • | Notes |
| 5. Conclusion |
| Abbreviations |
| Bibliography |