Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xv
5. Introduction 1
6. One. ‘‘A Rough Spade for a Rugged Landscape’’ On Savage Selves and More Civil Places 31
7. two. ‘‘What Remains of the Harvest When the Fence Grazes the Crop?’’ On the Proper Violence of Agrarian Citizenship 65
8. three ‘‘The Life of the Thief Leaves the Belly Always Boiling’’ On the Nature and Restraint of the Criminal Animal 100
9. four ‘‘Millets Sown Yield Millets, Evil Sown Yields Evil’’ On the Moral Returns of Agrarian Toil 141
10. five ‘‘Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass’’ On the Sympathies of an Aqueous Self 181
11. Epilogue 221
12. Notes 241
13. Glossary 283
14. Bibliography 289
15. Index 309