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Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab

Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab

Gill, Navyug

Paperback

Series: South Asia in Motion

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndian & South Asian HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1503637492
ISBN13: 9781503637498
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jan 16 2024
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of intense intellectual and political debate. Yet underlying much of this literature is the assumption that peasants simply existed everywhere, a general if not generic group, traced backward from modernity to antiquity. Focused on the transformation of Panjab during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book accounts for the colonial origins of global capitalism through a radical history of the concept of the peasant, demonstrating how seemingly fixed hierarchies were in fact produced, legitimized, and challenged within the preeminent agricultural region of South Asia. Navyug Gill uncovers how and why British officials and ascendant Panjabis disrupted existing forms of identity and occupation to generate a new agrarian order in the countryside. The notion of the hereditary caste peasant engaged in timeless cultivation thus emerged, paradoxically, as a result of a dramatic series of conceptual, juridical, and monetary divisions.

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