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082			_a306.3630 PRA
100			_aPrakash, Gyan
245			_aBonded Histories _b: genealogies of labor servitude in colonial India _c/ Gyan Prakash
260			_aUSA _b: Cambridge University Press, _c2002.
300			_axvi, 250 pages _b : illustrations _c ; 22 cm.
365			_b2076
490			_aCambridge South Asian studies, 44.
505			_a Introduction: the discourse of freedom -- Places of bondage -- True stories -- Land is to objectify -- Freedom found and lost -- Contested power -- Conclusion: freedom bound.
520			_aTo 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."--Publisher description.
650			_aSocial sciences
650			_aCulture & institutions
650			_aIndentured servants -- India -- Bihar -- History -- 19th century.
650			_aIndentured servants.
650			_aIndia -- Bihar.
655			_aIndentured servants
700			_aPrakash, Gyan,
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