{"product_id":"reformatting-agrarian-life-william-j-glover-9781503642263","title":"Reformatting Agrarian Life: Urban History from the Countryside in Colonial India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReformatting Agrarian Life\u003c\/i\u003e presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for understanding how urbanism unexpectedly left the city in late colonial India and began to settle in agrarian space, exploring how two milieus that were initially seen as distinct were gradually brought together both conceptually and in practices of ordinary life. He argues that rural change and the expert knowledge associated with managing the countryside in colonial India opened paths for urban concepts and forms to permeate agrarian settings where they were previously thought to have little relevance. This process indelibly shaped idioms and modes of agrarian life, just as it gave rural problems and processes a structural role in urban discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy illuminating the intellectual paths by which agrarian and urban processes came to be understood as co-constituting, and exploring multiple, vivid, empirically rich case studies of projects where those relations were made evident, this book presents a compelling case to move beyond traditional intellectual silos and enter new theoretical territory to understand processes of urban and rural transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William J. Glover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1503642267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503642263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"William J. Glover","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46311273890047,"sku":"9781503642263","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e6fe98e-98fb-4c00-a755-327e4643f3e2.jpg?v=1730889038","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reformatting-agrarian-life-william-j-glover-9781503642263","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}