A local history of global capital : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta /
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...
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
c2018.
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| Series: | Histories of economic life
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Cultivating jute: peasant choice, labor, and hunger
- Consumption and self-fashioning: the politics of peasant consumerism
- The spaces of jute: metropolis, hinterland, and Mofussil
- Immiseration
- Agrarian forms of Islam: the politics of peasant immiseration
- Peasant populism: electoral politics and the "rural Muhammadan"
- Pakistan and partition: peasant utopia and disillusion
- Conclusion.