Reformatting agrarian life : urban history from the countryside in colonial India : Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India / William J. Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glover, William J., author.

Series:

South Asia in motion.

South Asia in Motion Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural-urban relations--India--History--20th century.

Rural-urban relations.

Agriculture and state--India--History--20th century.

Agriculture and state.

India--Rural conditions.

India.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: DISRUPTED

ONE. RECONCEPTUALIZING AGRICULTURE

TWO. AN AGRARIAN URBANISM

THREE. BOUNDARY WORK

FOUR. THE AESTHETICS OF RURAL RECONSTRUCTION

EPILOGUE. CO-CONSTITUTION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781503642270

1503642275