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CambridgeImperialandPost-ColonialStudiesSeries GeneralEditors:MeganVaughan,Kings’College,Cambridge,andRichardDrayton,King’sCollegeLondon Thisinformativeseriescoversthebroadspanofmodernimperialhistorywhilealsoexploringtherecent developmentsinformercolonialstateswhereresiduesofempirecanstillbefound.Thebooksprovidein- depthexaminationsofempiresascompetingandcomplementarypowerstructuresencouragingthereader toreconsidertheirunderstandingofinternationalandworldhistoryduringrecentcenturies. Titlesinclude: MiguelBandeiraJerónimo THE‘CIVILISINGMISSION’OFPORTUGUESECOLONIALISM,1870–1930 MiguelBandeiraJerónimoandAntónioCostaPinto THEENDSOFEUROPEANCOLONIALEMPIRES CasesandComparisons GregoryA.Barton INFORMALEMPIREANDTHERISEOFONEWORLDCULTURE RachelBerger AYURVEDAMADEMODERN PoliticalHistoriesofIndigenousMedicineinNorthIndia,1900–1955 UlbeBosmaandAnthonyWebster COMMODITIES,PORTSANDASIANMARITIMETRADESINCE1750 RachelBright CHINESELABOURINSOUTHAFRICA,1902–10 Race,Violence,andGlobalSpectacle LarryButlerandSarahStockwell THEWINDOFCHANGE HaroldMacmillanandBritishDecolonization EsmeCleall MISSIONARYDISCOURSE NegotiatingDifferenceintheBritishEmpire,c.1840–95 T.J.Cribb(editor) IMAGINEDCOMMONWEALTH CambridgeEssaysonCommonwealthandInternationalLiteratureinEnglish BronwenEverill ABOLITIONANDEMPIREINSIERRALEONEANDLIBERIA AnnaGreenwoodandHarshadTopiwala INDIANDOCTORSINKENYA,1890–1940 SandipHazareesinghandHarroMaat(editors) LOCALSUBVERSIONSOFCOLONIALCULTURES CommoditiesandAnti-CommoditiesinGlobalHistory RóisínHealyandEnricoDalLago(editors) THESHADOWOFCOLONIALISMINEUROPE’SMODERNPAST LeslieJames GEORGEPADMOREANDDECOLONIZATIONFROMBELOW Pan-Africanism,theColdWar,andtheEndofEmpire RobinJeffrey POLITICS,WOMENANDWELL-BEING HowKeralaBecame‘aModel’ GeroldKrozewski MONEYANDTHEENDOFEMPIRE BritishInternationalEconomicPolicyandtheColonies,1947–58 ZoëLaidlawandAlanLester(editors) INDIGENOUSCOMMUNITIESANDSETTLERCOLONIALISM LandHolding,LossandSurvivalinanInterconnectedWorld SophusReinertandPernilleRøge THEPOLITICALECONOMYOFEMPIREINTHEEARLYMODERNWORLD JonathanSaha LAW,DISORDERANDTHECOLONIALSTATE CorruptioninBurmac.1900 JohnSingletonandPaulRobertson ECONOMICRELATIONSBETWEENBRITAINANDAUSTRALASIA1945–1970 LeonardSmith INSANITY,RACEANDCOLONIALISM ManagingMentalDisorderinthePost-EmancipationBritishCaribbean,1838–1914 AlexSutton THEPOLITICALECONOMYOFIMPERIALRELATIONS Britain,theSterlingArea,andMalaya1945–1960 MiguelSuárezBosa ATLANTICPORTSANDTHEFIRSTGLOBALISATIONc.1850–1930 JeromeTeelucksingh LABOURANDTHEDECOLONIZATIONSTRUGGLEINTRINIDADANDTOBAGO JuliaTischler LIGHTANDPOWERFORAMULTIRACIALNATION TheKaribaDamSchemeintheCentralAfricanFederation EricaWald VICEINTHEBARRACKS Medicine,theMilitaryandtheMakingofColonialIndia,1780–1868 AnnaWinterbottom HYBRIDKNOWLEDGEINTHEEARLYEASTINDIACOMPANYWORLD CambridgeImperialandPost-ColonialStudiesSeries SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–333–91908–8(Hardback) 978–0–333–91909–5(Paperback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastandingorder.Pleasecontact yourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,the titleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG21 6XS,England Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History Editedby Sandip Hazareesingh ResearchFellow,TheOpenUniversity,UK and Harro Maat Lecturer,WageningenUniversity,TheNetherlands Selection,introductionandeditorialmatter©SandipHazareesingh andHarroMaat2016 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-38109-5 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. 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ISBN978-1-349-56529-0 ISBN978-1-137-38110-1(eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137381101 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Hazareesingh,Sandip,author Localsubversionsofcolonialcultures:commoditiesand anti-commoditiesinglobalhistory/SandipHazareesingh,HarroMaat. pages cm 1. Agriculture—Economicaspects—Africa—History. 2. Agriculture— Economicaspects—Asia—History. 3. Agriculture—Economic aspects—Caribbean—History. 4. Producetrade—Africa—History. 5. Producetrade—Asia—History. 6. Producetrade—Caribbean Area—History. 7. Africa—Colonies—Administration—History. 8. Asia—Colonies—Administration—History. 9. Caribbean Area—Colonies—Administration—History. I. Maat, Harro,author. II. Title. HD2117.H392015 338.1—dc23 2015021908 Contents ListofIllustrations vii Acknowledgements viii NotesonContributors x Introduction 1 SandipHazareesinghandHarroMaat 1 RiceasCommodityandAnti-Commodity 10 PaulRichards 2 YellowTobacco,BlackTobacco:Indigenous(desi)Tobacco asanAnti-Commodity 29 KathinkaSinha-Kerkhoff 3 UplandandLowlandRiceintheNetherlandsIndies 49 HarroMaat 4 Anti-CommodityCounterpoint:SmallholderDiversityand RuralDevelopmentontheCubanSugarFrontier 70 JonathanCurry-Machado 5 ‘YourForeignPlantsAreVeryDelicate’:PeasantCrop EcologiesandtheSubversionofColonialCottonDesignsin Dharwar,WesternIndia,1830–1880 97 SandipHazareesingh 6 SanitisingCommercialisation:HealthandthePoliticsof ‘Waste’inColonialPunjab 125 LaurenMinsky 7 EastAfricanRailwaysandHarbours,1945–1960:From ‘CrisisofAccumulation’toLabourResistance 147 DavidHyde 8 Rice,CivilisationandtheSwahiliTowns:Anti-Commodity andAnti-State? 170 ErikGilbert v vi Contents 9 ‘ShuntheWhiteMan’sCrop’:ShangweGrievances, ReligiousLeadersandCottonCultivationinNorth-Western Zimbabwe 187 SimeonMaravanyika Index 210 Illustrations Tables 4.1 CommodityproductioninRemedios(1827) 73 4.2 Availabilityoffoodstaplesinlocalfoodmarket,Remedios 87 5.1 Dharwarcottoncultivationarea,1842–83 117 9.1 Zviera(sacredsites) 199 Figures 2.1 BiharandOrissa,1928 30 3.1 Comparativevalueofcommodityexportsandrice importsoffourdistrictsonSumatraandBorneo 61 4.1 MapoftheregionofRemediosinCuba 71 4.2 Topography,showingmainrivers,hillyareasandfertile soils 74 4.3 SugarinRemedios,1878–showingsugarmillswith associatedplantationland 77 4.4 Approximateareasofsmallholderdiversityinrelationto areasofcanecultivation 84 5.1 MapofSouthernMarathaCountryinthe19thcentury, comprisingthedistrictsofDharwar,BelgaumandBijapur 100 5.2 MapofIndiashowingDharwardistrictandSigihalliFarm 103 5.3 Dharwardistrictinthe19thcentury 109 vii Acknowledgements The origins of this book lie in the collaborative research project ‘Com- modities and Anti-Commodities: indigenous production as sustainable practiceandresistanceagainstagrariancommercialcapitalisminAfrica, Asia, and the Caribbean during the colonial era’ funded by the Humanities division of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The project lasted from 2009 to 2013 and involved an institutional collaboration between the Technology and Agrarian DevelopmentgroupatWageningenUniversity,theNetherlandsandthe Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University, UK. The Ferguson Centre jointly hosted the British Academy-funded CommoditiesofEmpireresearchprojectwiththeInstitutefortheStudy oftheAmericas atLondonUniversity’sSchoolofAdvancedStudy.The ‘CommoditiesandAnti-Commodities’projectdrewinscholarsfromall these institutions and research groups who shared a commitment to explore the networks and processes through which primary commodi- ties were produced historically, and to assess the differential impact of these processes on producers, consumers, regions and societies in both ‘south’ and ‘north’. The project held two workshops, the first at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam in June 2010, and the second at Wageningen University in September 2012. The workshops brought together early career as well as established historians, anthropologists and development scholars to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on commodity histories. This volume presents a selection of the papers originally produced for the second workshop. Conceptually, this book is the result of the collective and lively deliberations held over many years and owes much to the kind sup- port and participation of many colleagues. We would like to express our gratitude to the authors and all the participants of the work- shops, as well as to those who have been otherwise involved dur- ing various stages of the project. We owe a special thanks to Paul Richards and to his tireless efforts to popularise the concept of ‘anti- commodity’. We would also like to thank the editors of the Palgrave Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series, Richard Drayton viii Acknowledgements ix and Megan Vaughan, and Jade Moulds, Holly Tyler, Jenny McCall and the staff at Palgrave Macmillan for their help and (considerable) patience. SandipHazareesinghandHarroMaat MiltonKeynesandWageningen,April2015
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