Table of Contents for Labors of Division

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

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction In Pursuit of Peasant Histories and Futures in Colonial Panjab

1.A Rule of Benevolence? Revenue, Knowledge, and the Accumulation of Difference

2.Naming the Peasant: Colonial Jurisprudence and the Binding of Identity and Occupation

3.The Logic and Illogic of Debt: Reason and Capitalist Volatility in the New Agrarian Market

4.Horizons of Hierarchy: Caste, Landlessness, and the Limits of Religious Conversion

5.Producing a Theory of Inadequacy: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and the Political Economy of Comparison

Conclusion: Global History and the Impermanence of Hierarchy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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