| Author/Contributor(s): | Ali, Tariq Omar |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Date: | 03/31/2020 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
"Ali provides an accessible and highly original study of peasant involvement in jute production and its ramifications for agrarian culture and politics in eastern Bengal. Superbly written and thoroughly researched, A Local History of Global Capital brings a series of fresh insights to the agrarian history of colonial South Asia."--Douglas E. Haynes, author of Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870-1960
"This is a fantastic book. Ali shows how an agrarian society that bears many of the conventional markers of what development theory construes as 'backwardness'--peasant production, overt religiosity, illiteracy--must in fact be understood as squarely located in capitalist modernity."--Andrew Sartori, author of Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History