This 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, India, this pathbreaking analysis offers a broad argument about the workings of colonial power: the fantasy of imperialism, it says, is to make the universe afresh.
Such radical change, Neeladri Bhattacharya shows, is as much conceptual as mat.
| Power | The fantasy of imperialism it says is to make the universe afresh |
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State University Of New York Press The great agrarian conquest, paperback/neeladri bhattacharya
