Assembling the Local : : Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India / / Upal Chakrabarti.

In 1817, in a region of the eastern coast of British India then known as Cuttack, a group of Paiks, the area's landed militia, began agitating against the East India Company's government, burning down government buildings and looting the treasury. While the attacks were initially understoo...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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