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Reformatting Agrarian Life: Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India

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Availability:In StockContributor:William J. GloverSeries:South Asia in MotionPublish date:2025-04-22Pages:306
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642263ISBN-10:1503642267UPC:9781503642263Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Human Geography, SociologyBook Topic:South, UrbanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCH71RWWD1

Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. William J. Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the city in late colonial India and began to settle in agrarian space, exploring how two milieus that were initially seen as distinct were gradually brought together both conceptually and in practices of ordinary life. He argues that rural change and the expert knowledge associated with managing the countryside in colonial India opened paths for urban concepts and forms to permeate agrarian settings where they were previously thought to have little relevance. This process indelibly shaped idioms and modes of agrarian life, just as it gave rural problems and processes a structural role in urban discourse.

By illuminating the intellectual paths by which agrarian and urban processes came to be understood as co-constituting, and exploring multiple vivid, empirically rich case studies of projects where those relations were made evident, this book presents a compelling case to move beyond traditional intellectual silos and enter new theoretical territory to understand processes of urban and rural transformation.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9781503642263ISBN-10:1503642267UPC:9781503642263Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Human Geography, SociologyBook Topic:South, UrbanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.9105Product ID:SCH71RWWD1
William J. Glover is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City (2008).
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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