Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface on Terminology xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 1. Land Tenure or Labor Control?: The Agrarian Mise-en-Scène 23
8. Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Pariah Conversion: Caste, Spirit, Matter, and Penury 40
9. Chapter 3. The Pariah–Missionary Alliance: Agrarian Contestation and the Local State 71
10. Chapter 4. The State and the Cēri 91
11. Chapter 5. Settling Land, Sowing Conflict; or, The Rise and Rise of Religious Neutrality 118
12. Chapter 6. The Marriage of Sacred and Secular Authority: New Liberalism, Mission–State Relations, and the Birth of Authenticity 144
13. Chapter 7. Giving the Panchama a Home: Creating “a Friction Where None Exists” 168
14. Chapter 8. Everyday Warfare: Caste, Class, and the Public 190
15. Chapter 9. The Depressed Classes, Rights, and the Embrace of the Social 217
16. Conclusion: The Pariah Problem’s Enduring Legacies 240
17. GLOSSARY 259
18. NOTES 261
19. ARCHIVAL SOURCES 345
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 349
21. INDEX 377