TY - JOUR
T1 - Country politics and Agrarian systems
T2 - Land grab on Bengal frontiers, 1750-1800
AU - Ludden, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017.
PY - 2017/3/1
Y1 - 2017/3/1
N2 - The forceful expropriation of land, labour, water, and other productive resources is fundamental for processes of agricultural expansion and intensification. What is known today as 'land grab' was theorized by Marx as 'primitive accumulation' and by David Harvey as 'accumulation by dispossession'. Today it is most prominent and controversial in Africa, where the governments of India and China are major perpetrators; and it also drives most contemporary urban expansion in India and China. This article deploys David Washbrook's idea of 'country politics' to explore the process of land grabbing in the early-modern expansion of agrarian Bengal, where local peasant society and worldwide imperial political economy came together to expand frontiers of farming in what is now the Sylhet District of Bangladesh.
AB - The forceful expropriation of land, labour, water, and other productive resources is fundamental for processes of agricultural expansion and intensification. What is known today as 'land grab' was theorized by Marx as 'primitive accumulation' and by David Harvey as 'accumulation by dispossession'. Today it is most prominent and controversial in Africa, where the governments of India and China are major perpetrators; and it also drives most contemporary urban expansion in India and China. This article deploys David Washbrook's idea of 'country politics' to explore the process of land grabbing in the early-modern expansion of agrarian Bengal, where local peasant society and worldwide imperial political economy came together to expand frontiers of farming in what is now the Sylhet District of Bangladesh.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0026749X16000731
DO - 10.1017/S0026749X16000731
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85017457979
SN - 0026-749X
VL - 51
SP - 319
EP - 349
JO - Modern Asian Studies
JF - Modern Asian Studies
IS - 2
ER -