The great agrarian conquest : the colonial reshaping of a rural world / Neeladri Bhattacharya

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Bhattacharya, Neeladri [author]

Publication details: Permanent Black, 2018 Raniket :Description: xix, 522 pages : illustration ; 21 cmISBN:

9788178245447

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DDC classification:

23 338.109545509034 B469G

Contents:

Introduction: The great agrarian conquest -- I. Governing the rural. Masculine paternalism and colonial governance -- II. The agrarian imaginary. How villages were found ; In search of tenures ; The power of categories ; Codifying custom -- III. From code to practice. Remembered pasts ; Beyond the code ; Fear of the fragment -- IV. From the "primitive" to the modern. Colonising the commons ; The promise of modernity, antinomies of development -- Epilogue: The last ride.

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Introduction: The great agrarian conquest --
I. Governing the rural. Masculine paternalism and colonial governance --
II. The agrarian imaginary. How villages were found ; In search of tenures ; The power of categories ; Codifying custom --
III. From code to practice. Remembered pasts ; Beyond the code ; Fear of the fragment --
IV. From the "primitive" to the modern. Colonising the commons ; The promise of modernity, antinomies of development --
Epilogue: The last ride.

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