Antaja Kings in Mlecch Land: The Political between Caste and Law in Early Eighteenth-Century Hindustan

This chapter studies the many meanings of a reconfigured idea of kingship through a close reading of the Assamese Dharmapurana, an eighteenth-century Tungkhungia courtly text. By incorporating philological and art historical methods of reading, the chapter foregrounds the ways in which the concept of jati emerged as the foundation of a new political imagination of kingship, expressed in words and in paintings.

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