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List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1.Honour, status and state formation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuryMaravar country; 2. Cosmological fragmentation in the public sphere; 3.Domain formation in mid-nineteenth-century Ramnad; 4. Human and divinepalaces in the fragmentation of monarchical cosmology; 5. Ritualperformances, the ruling person and the public; 6. Raja Baskara Setupati andthe emergence of a new political style; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.