Author: Lal Behari Day
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Bengal Peasant Life
Author: Lal Behari Day
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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A Local History of Global Capital
Author: Tariq Omar Ali
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202575
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202575
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital. Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century. A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
Folk-tales of Bengal
Author: Lal Behari Day
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Category : Bengali (South Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Category : Bengali (South Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
Author: Sugata Bose
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A critical work of synthesis and interpretation of agrarian change in India over the long term.
Bihar Peasant Life, Being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province, with Many Illustrations from Photographs Taken by the Author
Author: Sir George Abraham Grierson
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Bengal Delta
Author: I. Iqbal
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, C. 1295-1344
Author: Judith Bennett
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.
Ethnography
Author: Jervoise Athelstane Baines
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Publisher:
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Macmillan's Magazine
Author:
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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