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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ranikhet : Permanent Black Publocations ;Description: xix, 522 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.10954 BHA P18G
Contents:
Introduction: The great agrarian conquest -- I. Governing thr 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 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Introduction: The great agrarian conquest -- I. Governing thr 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 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

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