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The great agrarian conquest : the colonial reshaping of a rural world /
"This book examines how, over colonial times, the diverse practices and customs of an existing rural universe--with its many forms of livelihood--were reshaped to create a new agrarian world of settled farming. While focusing on Punjab, this path breaking analysis offers a broad argument about...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The great agrarian conquest
- Masculine paternalism and colonial governance
- How villages were found
- In search of tenures
- The power of categories
- Codifying custom
- Remembered pasts
- Beyond the code
- Fear of the fragment
- Colonising the commons
- The promise of modernity, antinomies of development
- Epilogue: The last ride.