A local history of global capital : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press,
2018
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| Series: | Histories of economic life |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction -- Cultivating jute: peasant choice, labor, and hunger -- Consumption and self-fashioning: the politics of peasant consumerism -- The spaces of jute: metropolis, hinterland, and Mofussil -- Immiseration -- Agrarian forms of Islam: the politics of peasant immiseration -- Peasant populism: electoral politics and the "rural Muhammadan" -- Pakistan and partition: peasant utopia and disillusion -- Conclusion.