A local history of global capital : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta /

A local history of global capital : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta /

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Author / Creator:	Ali, Tariq Omar, author.
Imprint:	Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, England : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xv, 244 pages : tables, graphs, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Histories of economic life Histories of economic life.
Subject:	Commodity exchanges. Economic history. Jute industry. Social conditions. Jute industry -- Bengal Basin -- History. Commodity exchanges. Bengal Basin -- Economic conditions -- History. Bengal Basin -- Social conditions -- History. India -- Bengal Basin. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11561181

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ISBN:	9780691170237 0691170231
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-231) and index.
Summary:	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 the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital.Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century.A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
Other form:	Electronic version: Ali, Tariq Omar. Local history of global capital. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2018 9781400889280

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