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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      27 April 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511470721
      9780521526586
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511470721
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.365kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
      Series:
      Cambridge South Asian Studies (44)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
    Series:
    Cambridge South Asian Studies (44)
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    To the modern world, the notions that freedom is an innate condition of human beings and that money possesses the power to bind people appear as natural facts. Bonded Histories traces the historical processes by which these notions became established as dominant discourses in India during colonial rule and continued into post-colonial India. Gyan Prakash locates the formulation of these discourses in the history of bonded labour in southern Bihar. He focuses on the emergence and subsequent transformation of the relationship of reciprocal power and dependence between landlords and labourers. The author explores the way in which these transformations were connected with broader shifts in the political economy of this part of the subcontinent; with the changing structures of agricultural production, land tenure and revenue demand; with local social hierarchies and the ideology of castes; and with Hindu cosmologies, spirit cults and their articulation in ritual practices.

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