PART I. Royal Authority And The State 1. The King's Three Bodies: Royal Effigies in Southern Sudan, East India and Renaissance France 2. African Polities and the Pre-Modern Indian State PART II. Kings, 'Tribes' and Goddesses 3. Tutelary Deities: The Royal Patronage of Tribal Goddesses 4. The Hindu King's Authority Reconsidered: Durgā-Pūjā and Dasarā in a South Orissan Jungle Kingdom 5. Contact Zone: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Relationship between Kings and Tribes in Middle India PART III. Of Sleeping And Dead Kings 6. 'In Sleep a King . . .': The Politics of Dreaming in a Cross-Cultural Perspective 7. 'The First Kings must have been Dead Kings': A.M. Hocart on Kingship and Ritual.