04952nam a2200577 a 4500 37422 BD-DhAAL 20230403104331.0 240121t20182019njud b 001 0 eng d 2017963398 9780691170237 9780691202570 9780691195506 YDX eng YDX rda BDX TOH UIU GSU STF UIU OCLCF CHVBK GUA OCLCO DLC BD-DhAAL HF3786.5 .A665 2018 382.0954 23 Ali, Tariq Omar, author. 40769 A local history of global capital : jute and peasant life in the Bengal Delta / Tariq Omar Ali. A local history of global capital : jute & peasant life in the Bengal Delta Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2018. xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Histories of economic life Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-231) and index. 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. 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. GenEd Hye Trade International, Paragon Enterprises LTD. 37422, 37423, 39927, 41051, 41052, 41053 Jute industry Bengal Basin History. 40770 Commodity exchanges. 40771 Commodity exchanges. fast 40771 Economic history. fast 40772 Jute industry. fast 40773 Social conditions. fast 40774 Juteanbau gnd 40775 Regionalwirtschaft gnd 40776 Welthandel gnd 40777 Bengal Basin Economic conditions History. 40778 Bengal Basin Social conditions History. 40779 India Bengal Basin. fast 40780 Ganges-Brahmaputra-Mündungsdelta gnd 40781 History. fast Histories of economic life 40783 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 43189 43189 0 0 ddc 0 382_095400000000000_ALI 0 69207 SCL SCL GEN 2020-12-09 Hye Trade International 822.00 0 382.0954 ALI 3020037422 2020-12-09 1 822.00 2020-12-09 BK Received during COVID-19 pandemic 0 0 ddc 0 382_095400000000000_ALI 0 69208 SCL SCL GEN 2020-12-09 Hye Trade International 822.00 0 382.0954 ALI 3020037423 2020-12-09 2 822.00 2020-12-09 BK Received during COVID-19 pandemic 0 0 ddc 0 382_095400000000000_ALI 0 72158 SCL SCL GEN 2022-10-24 Paragon Enterprises LTD 2650.00 0 382.0954 ALI 3020039927 2022-10-24 3 2650.00 2022-10-24 BK 0 0 ddc 0 382_095400000000000_ALI 0 73493 SCL SCL GEN 2023-04-03 0 382.0954 ALI 3020041051 2023-04-03 4 2023-04-03 BK 0 0 ddc 0 382_095400000000000_ALI 0 73494 SCL SCL GEN 2023-04-03 0 382.0954 ALI 3020041052 2023-04-03 5 2023-04-03 BK 0 0 ddc 0 382_095400000000000_ALI 0 73495 SCL SCL GEN 2023-04-03 0 382.0954 ALI 3020041053 2023-04-03 6 2023-04-03 BK