Assembling the local : political economy and agrarian governance in British India /

In Assembling the Local, Upal Chakrabarti argues that the ""local"" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, which was itself central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century Briti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chakrabarti, Upal (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:Intellectual history of the modern age.
Subjects:
1765-1947
Agriculture > Economic aspects > India > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Political aspects > India > History > 19th century.
Agriculture and state > India > History > 19th century.
Agriculture > Aspect économique > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Politique agricole > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Agriculture and state
Agriculture > Economic aspects
Land tenure > Political aspects
Politics and government
India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947.
India > Politics and government > 1765-1947.
Inde > Histoire > 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1765-1947.
India
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Assembling the Local
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction. Universality as Difference
  • Chapter 1. Science, Method, and Indigeneity: Political Economy
  • Chapter 2. The Trace of the Local: Rent
  • Chapter 3. Temporal Geographies of Power: Property
  • Chapter 4. Grounding Governance: Village
  • Chapter 5. Disputes in the Locality: Peasants
  • Conclusion. Rewriting Production
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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