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A Local History of Global Capital : Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta / Tariq Omar Ali.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Histories of Economic Life ; 5Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) : 1 b/w illus., 11 tables, 3 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691170237
  • 9781400889280
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF3786.5 .A665 2018
  • HF3786.5 .A665 2018eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Cultivating Jute -- 2. Consumption and Self- Fashioning -- 3. The Spaces of Jute -- 4. Immiseration -- 5. Agrarian Forms of Islam -- 6. Peasant Populism -- 7. Pakistan and Partition -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Cultivating Jute -- 2. Consumption and Self- Fashioning -- 3. The Spaces of Jute -- 4. Immiseration -- 5. Agrarian Forms of Islam -- 6. Peasant Populism -- 7. Pakistan and Partition -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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