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