Description
The Indian nobility of the Andes–in large part descended from the Inca monarchs and other pre-conquest lords–occupied a the most important economic and political position in past due colonial Andean society, a position widely accepted as legitimate till the Túpac Amaru rise up. This volume traces the history of this past due colonial elite and examines the pre-conquest and colonial foundations in their privilege and authority. It brings to light the organization and the ideology of the Indian nobility within the bishopric of Cusco within the decades before the rise up, and uses this nobility as a lens by which to check the interior organization and tension of past due colonial Indian communities.