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• catalog abstract ""The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less familiar aspects of colonial India. At one level, Yang reconstructs Bihar's marketing system, from its central place in the city of Patna down to the lowest rung of the periodic markets. But he also concentrates on the dynamics of exchanges and negotiations between different groups and on what can be learned through the "voices" of people in the bazaar: landholders, peasants, traders, and merchants. Along the way, Yang uncovers a wealth of details on the functioning of rural trade, markets, fairs, and pilgrimages in Bihar. A key contribution of Bazaar India is its many-stranded narrative history of some of South Asia's primary actors over the past two centuries. But Yang's approach is not that of a detached observer rather, his own voice is engaged with the voices of the past and with present-day historians. By focusing on the world beyond the mud walls of the village, he widens the imaginative geography of South Asian history. Readers with an interest in markets, social history, culture, colonialism, British India, and historiographic methods will welcome his book"--Publisher description.".
• catalog contributor b11102138.
• catalog coverage "Bihar (India) Social conditions.".
• catalog created "c1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "c1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
• catalog description ""The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation. The bazaar provides a distinctive locale for posing fundamental questions regarding indigenous societies under colonialism and for highlighting less familiar aspects of colonial India. At one level, Yang reconstructs Bihar's marketing system, from its central place in the city of Patna down to the lowest rung of the periodic markets. But he also concentrates on the dynamics of exchanges and negotiations between different groups and on what can be learned through the "voices" of people in the bazaar: landholders, peasants, traders, and merchants. Along the way, Yang uncovers a wealth of details on the functioning of rural trade, markets, fairs, and pilgrimages in Bihar. A key contribution of Bazaar India is its many-stranded narrative history of some of South Asia's primary actors over the past two centuries. But Yang's approach is not that of a detached observer rather, his own voice is engaged with the voices of the past and with present-day historians. By focusing on the world beyond the mud walls of the village, he widens the imaginative geography of South Asian history. Readers with an interest in markets, social history, culture, colonialism, British India, and historiographic methods will welcome his book"--Publisher description.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction / Henry A. Dietz and Gil Shidlo Abbreviations of Political Parties 1. Urban Electoral Politics in Argentina / Peter A. Calvert 2. Municipal Elections in Bolivia / Eduardo A. Gamarra 3. Local Urban Elections in Democratic Brazil / Gil Shidlo 4. Urban Electoral Behavior in Colombia / Gary Hoskin 5. Urban Elections in the Dominican Republic, 1962 1994 / Christopher Mitchell 6. National and Local Elections in El Salvador, 1982 1994 / Ricardo Cordova Macias and Andrew J. Stein 7. Opening the Electoral Space in Mexico: The Rise of the Opposition at the State and Local Levels / Victoria E. Rodriguez 8. Urban Elections in Peru, 1980 1995 / Henry A. Dietz 9. Why Are There No Local Politics in Uruguay? / Aidan Rankin 10. Venezuelan Local and National Elections, 1958 1995 / Angel E. Alvarez Conclusion / Henry A. Dietz and Gil Shidlo.".
• catalog extent "xi, 305 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0520210999 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0520211006 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "c1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Bihar (India) Social conditions.".
• catalog spatial "India Bihar (State)".
• catalog spatial "India Bihar".
• catalog subject "381/.18/095412 21".
• catalog subject "HF5475.I52 B549 1998".
• catalog subject "Markets Social aspects India Bihar (State) History.".
• catalog subject "Markets Social aspects India Bihar History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Henry A. Dietz and Gil Shidlo Abbreviations of Political Parties 1. Urban Electoral Politics in Argentina / Peter A. Calvert 2. Municipal Elections in Bolivia / Eduardo A. Gamarra 3. Local Urban Elections in Democratic Brazil / Gil Shidlo 4. Urban Electoral Behavior in Colombia / Gary Hoskin 5. Urban Elections in the Dominican Republic, 1962 1994 / Christopher Mitchell 6. National and Local Elections in El Salvador, 1982 1994 / Ricardo Cordova Macias and Andrew J. Stein 7. Opening the Electoral Space in Mexico: The Rise of the Opposition at the State and Local Levels / Victoria E. Rodriguez 8. Urban Elections in Peru, 1980 1995 / Henry A. Dietz 9. Why Are There No Local Politics in Uruguay? / Aidan Rankin 10. Venezuelan Local and National Elections, 1958 1995 / Angel E. Alvarez Conclusion / Henry A. Dietz and Gil Shidlo.".
• catalog title "Bazaar India : markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar / Anand A. Yang.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".