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Reformatting agrarian life : urban history from the countryside in colonial India /

"Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the city in late colonial India and began to se...

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Main Author:	Glover, William J. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
Series:	South Asia in motion.
Subjects:	Rural-urban relations > India > History > 20th century. Agriculture and state > India > History > 20th century. India > Rural conditions. India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947. Politique agricole > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle. Inde > Histoire > 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)

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