Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab by Gill, Navyug
Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab by Gill, Navyug

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

One of the most durable figures in modern history, the peasant has long been a site of...
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Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab by Gill, Navyug

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

$102.34
Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab by Gill, Navyug

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

$102.34
Author: Navyug Gill
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Far from archaic relics, this book ultimately reveals both the landowning peasant and landless laborer to be novel political subjects forged through the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Questions of progress, exploitation and knowledge come to animate the vernacular operations of power. With this history, Gill brings difference and contingency to understandings of the global past in order to re-think the itinerary of comparative political economy as well as alternative possibilities for emancipatory futures.



Author: Navyug Gill
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 01/16/2024
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781503637498


Review Citation(s):
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About the Author
Navyug Gill is Associate Professor of History at William Paterson University.
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