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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Bibliographic Details
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)

Table of Contents:

Introduction : disrupted
Reconceptualizing agriculture
An agrarian urbanism
Boundary work
The aesthetics of rural reconstruction
Epilogue : co-constitution.