04090nam 2200589 450 991055449650332120210316193125.00-8122-9771-710.9783/9780812297713(CKB)4100000011632587(MiAaPQ)EBC6415975(DE-B1597)563179(DE-B1597)9780812297713(OCoLC)1225547455(EXLCZ)99410000001163258720210316d2021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAssembling the local political economy and agrarian governance in British India /Upal ChakrabartiFirst edition.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (288 p.)Intellectual history of the modern age0-8122-5273-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- contents -- Introduction. universality as difference -- chapter 1. science, Method, and Indigeneity: Political economy -- chapter 2. the trace of the Local: rent -- chapter 3. temporal geographies of Power: Property -- chapter 4. grounding governance: Village -- chapter 5. disputes in the Locality: Peasants -- conclusion. rewriting Production -- notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- AcknowledgmentsIn 1817, in a region of the eastern coast of British India then known as Cuttack, a group of Paiks, the area's landed militia, began agitating against the East India Company's government, burning down government buildings and looting the treasury. While the attacks were initially understood as an attempt to return the territory's native ruler to power, investigations following the rebellion's suppression traced the cause back to the introduction of a model of revenue governance unsuited to local conditions. Elsewhere in British India, throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, interregional debates over revenue settlement models and property disputes in villages revealed an array of practices of governance that negotiated with the problem of their applicability to local conditions. And at the same time in Britain, the dominant Ricardian conception of political economy was being challenged by thinkers like Richard Jones and William Whewell, who sought to make political economy an inductive science, capable of analyzing the real world.Through analyses of these three interrelated moments in British imperial history, Upal Chakrabarti's Assembling the Local engages with articulations of the "local" on multiple theoretical and empirical fronts, weaving them into a complex reflection on the problem of difference and a critical commentary on connections between political economy, agrarian property, and governance. Chakrabarti argues that the "local" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century British India.Intellectual history of the modern age.Land tenurePolitical aspectsIndiaHistory19th centuryAgricultureEconomic aspectsIndiaHistory19th centuryAgriculture and stateIndiaHistory19th centuryIndiaPolitics and government1765-1947IndiaHistoryBritish occupation, 1765-1947Electronic books.Political Science.Public Policy.Land tenurePolitical aspectsHistoryAgricultureEconomic aspectsHistoryAgriculture and stateHistory338.1/85409034Chakrabarti Upal1218341MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910554496503321Assembling the local2817451UNINA