TY - GEN AU - Bhattacharya, Neeladri TI - The great agrarian conquest : : the colonial reshaping of a rural world SN - 9788178245447 U1 - 338.109545509034 B469G 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Raniket PB - Permanent Black KW - Agricultural colonies KW - India KW - Punjab KW - History KW - Agriculture and state KW - India KW - Punjab (India) KW - Colonization N1 - 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 ER -