LEADER 04090nam 2200589 450 001 9910554496503321 005 20210316193125.0 010 $a0-8122-9771-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812297713 035 $a(CKB)4100000011632587 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6415975 035 $a(DE-B1597)563179 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812297713 035 $a(OCoLC)1225547455 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011632587 100 $a20210316d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAssembling the local $epolitical economy and agrarian governance in British India /$fUpal Chakrabarti 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 1 $aIntellectual history of the modern age 311 $a0-8122-5273-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tcontents -- $tIntroduction. universality as difference -- $tchapter 1. science, Method, and Indigeneity: Political economy -- $tchapter 2. the trace of the Local: rent -- $tchapter 3. temporal geographies of Power: Property -- $tchapter 4. grounding governance: Village -- $tchapter 5. disputes in the Locality: Peasants -- $tconclusion. rewriting Production -- $tnotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1817, in a region of the eastern coast of British India then known as Cuttack, a group of Paiks, the area's landed militia, began agitating against the East India Company's government, burning down government buildings and looting the treasury. While the attacks were initially understood as an attempt to return the territory's native ruler to power, investigations following the rebellion's suppression traced the cause back to the introduction of a model of revenue governance unsuited to local conditions. Elsewhere in British India, throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, interregional debates over revenue settlement models and property disputes in villages revealed an array of practices of governance that negotiated with the problem of their applicability to local conditions. And at the same time in Britain, the dominant Ricardian conception of political economy was being challenged by thinkers like Richard Jones and William Whewell, who sought to make political economy an inductive science, capable of analyzing the real world.Through analyses of these three interrelated moments in British imperial history, Upal Chakrabarti's Assembling the Local engages with articulations of the "local" on multiple theoretical and empirical fronts, weaving them into a complex reflection on the problem of difference and a critical commentary on connections between political economy, agrarian property, and governance. Chakrabarti argues that the "local" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century British India. 410 0$aIntellectual history of the modern age. 606 $aLand tenure$xPolitical aspects$zIndia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects$zIndia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAgriculture and state$zIndia$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aIndia$xPolitics and government$y1765-1947 607 $aIndia$xHistory$yBritish occupation, 1765-1947 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aLand tenure$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAgriculture$xEconomic aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAgriculture and state$xHistory 676 $a338.1/85409034 700 $aChakrabarti$b Upal$01218341 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554496503321 996 $aAssembling the local$92817451 997 $aUNINA