Assembling the local : political economy and agrarian governance in British India /

In Assembling the Local, Upal Chakrabarti argues that the ""local"" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, which was itself central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century Briti...

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Author / Creator: Chakrabarti, Upal (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Series:Intellectual history of the modern age.
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Summary:In Assembling the Local, Upal Chakrabarti argues that the ""local"" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, which was itself central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century British India

In Assembling the Local , Upal Chakrabarti argues that the "local" should be reconceptualized as an abstract machine, which was itself central to the construction of the universal, namely, the establishment of political economy as a form of governance in nineteenth-century British India.

Item Description:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2020).
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:0812297717
9780812297713
Author Notes:Upal Chakrabarti is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Presidency University, Kolkata.