Bhattacharya, Neeladri <br/><br/>
The great agrarian conquest :   the colonial reshaping of a rural world / 
Neeladri Bhattacharya 
 - Raniket :  Permanent Black,  2018 
 - xix, 522 pages :  illustration ;  21 cm 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The great agrarian conquest --<br/>I. Governing the rural. Masculine paternalism and colonial governance --<br/>II. The agrarian imaginary. How villages were found ; In search of tenures ; The power of categories ; Codifying custom --<br/>III. From code to practice. Remembered pasts ; Beyond the code ; Fear of the fragment --<br/>IV. From the "primitive" to the modern. Colonising the commons ; The promise of modernity, antinomies of development --<br/>Epilogue: The last ride. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788178245447 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Agricultural colonies--History--India--Punjab<br/>Agriculture and state--History-- India --Punjab
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Punjab (India).--Colonization
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.109545509034 B469G