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Book Review

Asia

Anand A. Yang. Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Gangetic Bihar. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 305. Cloth $55.00, paper $25.00.

Space and spaces, place and places, and the interconnections therein and between are often forgotten dimensions in historical writing. Some recent writing, however, has taken an interesting spatial turn—or return since it is a revival of what some previous historians knew well and expressed effectively, namely that time(s) and space(s) need to be explored together. With its emphasis on markets and their sociocultural and economic interconnections, Anand A. Yang's book has a decidedly spatial orientation. 1

This is a fine, innovative book. Clearly written and well researched in an impressive body of indigenous and colonial sources, it much improves our understanding of the changing horizontal and vertical linkages of South Asian societies under colonialism. Many markets of various sizes and functions provided, in Yang's analysis, the crucial synapses where economic, cultural, and political interests (subordinate and superordinate, "British" and "Indian," and varieties of both) meshed and contested one another. The geographical and temporal context of the book is a 24,000-square-mile area north and south of the city of Patna in the middle Gangetic valley from the later eighteenth century to the 1940s. The specific context notwithstanding, however, the book deserves to be read widely. One does not need to specialize in colonial India in order to follow Yang's arguments and to benefit from his book's content. . . .

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