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

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction In Pursuit of Peasant Histories and Futures in Colonial Panjab
1A Rule of Benevolence? Revenue, Knowledge, and the Accumulation of Difference
2Naming the Peasant: Colonial Jurisprudence and the Binding of Identity and Occupation
3The Logic and Illogic of Debt: Reason and Capitalist Volatility in the New Agrarian Market
4Horizons of Hierarchy: Caste, Landlessness, and the Limits of Religious Conversion
5Producing 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