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The great agrarian conquest the colonial reshaping of a rural world
Title
The great agrarian conquest [electronic resource] : the colonial reshaping of a rural world / Neeladri Bhattacharya.
ISBN
9781438477411 (electronic bk.)
1438477414 (electronic bk.)
9781438477398
1438477392
9781438477404
1438477406
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2019]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 21, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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