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Explores the generative crisis in understanding property's role in the constitution of a liberal polity, which intersected in Bengal with a new politics of peasant independence based on practices of commodity exchange.

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"A careful and intelligent study." American Historical Review "Impressive, thought-provoking ... the book makes a very nuanced and persuasive case." Victorian Studies

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1. How to Write a History of Liberalism? 2. The Great Rent Case 3. Custom and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism 4. An Agrarian Civil Society? Intermezzo: The Forgetting of Liberal Custom 5. Peasant Property and Muslim Freedom Conclusion: Political Economy, Liberalism, and the History of Capital Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780520281684, 978-0520281684
      ISBN10: 0520281683

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the generative crisis in understanding property's role in the constitution of a liberal polity, which intersected in Bengal with a new politics of peasant independence based on practices of commodity exchange.

      Trade Review
      "A careful and intelligent study." American Historical Review "Impressive, thought-provoking ... the book makes a very nuanced and persuasive case." Victorian Studies

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 1. How to Write a History of Liberalism? 2. The Great Rent Case 3. Custom and the Crisis of Victorian Liberalism 4. An Agrarian Civil Society? Intermezzo: The Forgetting of Liberal Custom 5. Peasant Property and Muslim Freedom Conclusion: Political Economy, Liberalism, and the History of Capital Notes Bibliography Index

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