The great agrarian conquest: the colonial reshaping of a rural world

Bhattacharya, Neeladri

The 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 working of colonial power: the fantasy of imperialism, it says, is to make the universe afresh.

Publisher: Permanent Black

USD 46.50

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