Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements xiii
4. Abbreviations xvii
5. The Great Agrarian Conquest 1
6. Masculine Paternalism and Colonial Governance 16
7. How Villages were Found 64
8. In Search of Tenures 109
9. The Power of Categories 152
10. Codifying Custom 183
11. Remembered Pasts 221
12. Beyond the Code 253
13. Fear of the Fragment 295
14. Colonising the Commons 339
15. The Promise of Modernity, Antinomies of Development 385
16. Epilogue 442
17. Glossary 459
18. Bibliography 466
19. Index 511