Saints, goddesses, and kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900/
Susan Bayly
- New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- xv, 504 p. ; 23 cm.
- (Cambridge South Asian studies), 43 .
South Indian religion and society -- The development of Muslim society in Tamilnad -- The Muslim religious tradition in south India -- The south Indian state and the creation of Muslim community -- Warrior martyr pirs in the eighteenth century -- The final period of nawabi rule in the Carnatic -- South Indian Christians in the pre-colonial period -- The collapse of Syrian Christian 'integration' -- The Christian Paravas of southern Tamilnad -- Christian saints and gurus in the poligar country -- Christianity and colonial rule in the Tamil hinterland -- Conclusion -- Select glossary.