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2015-10-19 |
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This chapter emphasizes the ecological dimension of anticommodity as expressed in
a peasant countermovement to colonial concerned with validating the production and
use of the Dharwar agrarian environment as a sustainable socio-nature. For British
colonial officials in 19th century Dharwar, cotton represented the natural fibre that
could be magically tamed and engineered into a ‘transformative commodity’. This involved
cotton ‘improvement’ projects that sought, for over half a century, to replace indigenous
cotton by a transplanted American variety. However, these efforts were confronted
by a range of socio-natural forces that colonial knowledge never quite got to grips
with. The entwined social and natural worlds of peasant crop choices, cultivating
knowledge, climate, rainfall and soil presented formidable barriers to colonial cotton
designs, leading ultimately to their failure. |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357106 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357107 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357108 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357109 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357110 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/357111 |
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Hazareesingh, Sandip (2016). 'Your Foreign Plants are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop
Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, western India,
1830-1880. In: Hazareesingh, Sandip and Maat, Harro eds. Local Subversions of
Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History. Cambridge
Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. |
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Hazareesingh, Sandip (2015). 'Your Foreign Plants are Very Delicate': Peasant
Crop Ecologies and the Subversion of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, western India,
1830-1880. In: Hazareesingh, Sandip and Maat, Harro eds. Local Subversions of
Colonial Cultures: Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History. Cambridge
Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. |
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ext-a233f55d72060f29ddd4b6c6c98ceb57 |
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'Your Foreign Plants are Very Delicate': Peasant Crop Ecologies and the Subversion
of Colonial Cotton Designs in Dharwar, western India, 1830-1880. |
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