The Great Agrarian Conquest: colonial reshaping of a rural world (Record no. 344696)

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International Standard Book Number 9788178245447
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Classification number 338.1095455
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Personal name Bhattacharya, Neeladri
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Title The Great Agrarian Conquest: colonial reshaping of a rural world
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Permanent Black
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2019
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Extent 522
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Summary, etc. 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 pathbreaking analysis offers a broad argument about the workings of colonial power: the fantasy of imperialism, it says, is to make the universe afresh.<br/><br/>Such radical change, Bhattacharya shows, is as much conceptual as material. Agrarian colonisation was a process of creating spaces that conformed to the demands of colonial rule. It entailed establishing a regime of categories- tenancies, tenures, properties, habitations- and a framework of laws that made the change possible. Agrarian colonisation was in this sense a deep conquest.<br/><br/>Colonialism, the book suggests, has the power to revisualise and reorder social relations and bonds of community. It alters the world radically, even when it seeks to preserve elements of the old. The changes it brings about are simultaneously cultural, discursive, legal, linguistic, spatial, social, and economic. Moving from intent to action, concepts to practices, legal enactments to court battles, official discourses to folklore, this book explores the conflicted and dialogic nature of a transformative process.<br/><br/>By analysing this great conquest, and the often silent ways in which it unfolds, the book asks every historian to rethink the practice of writing agrarian history and reflect on the larger issues of doing history
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Agriculture and state
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Rural conditions
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2021-07-06 750.00   338.1095455 BHA 162536 2021-07-06 2021-07-06 Books

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