TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhattacharya,Neeladri
TI  - The great agrarian conquest: the colonial reshaping of a rural world 
U1  - 338.10954 
CY  - Ranikhet
PB  - Permanent Black Publocations
KW  - Agricultural colonies
KW  - India
KW  - Punjab
KW  - History
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - Social change
KW  - Villages
N1  - 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
ER  -