Karen Isaksen Leonard has published on the history and culture of India, especially the former Hyderabad State, and on Asian American and Muslim American history and culture. She retired in 2014, after chairing the Anthropology department at the University of California, Irvine.

List of Figures, Tables, and Maps
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition 
Transliteration and Abbreviations 
Glossary
Introduction

Part One: The Nizam Under Siege
1. The Administration of a Military Regime 
2. Kayasth Families and Marriage Alliances

Part Two: Consolidation of the Mughlai Civil Service
3. Power to the Recordkeepers 
4. Building a Mathur Subcaste 
5. Saksenas and Bhatnagars: Kin Groups and Positions 
6. Gaurs and Srivastavas: Other Adaptations

Part Three: Establishment of the Modern Administration
7. The Changing Environment of the Late Nineteenth Century 
8. Asthana and Srivastava Immigrants in Modern Professions 
9. Diversification Among the Mathurs 
10. Kayasths in Decline 
11. Kayasth Participation in Public Life

Part Four: Incorporation into India
12. The Kayasths and Twentieth-Century Political Developments 
13. Changing Educational and Occupational Patterns 
14. New Patterns of Leadership and Authority 
15. Beyond Caste Boundaries 
16. Conclusion: Beyond Caste

Appendices
A. Summary of Information Collected about the Hyderabad Kayasths 
B. The Mughlai Household Administration 
C. Hamzulf Among Saksenas 
D. Legendary Kayasths of Shahalibanda 
E. Suratval Genealogies 
F. Outmarriage by Subcastes

Epilogue
Cosmopolitan Worlds Lost and Found: The Reorientation of Hyderabad’s Mathur Kayasths

Bibliography 
Index