{"id":7592,"date":"2025-07-19T03:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7592"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:18:16","slug":"gills-labors-of-division-wins-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/07\/19\/gills-labors-of-division-wins-book-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill’s ‘Labors of Division’ Wins Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Doctoral program alum Navyug Gill <\/a>(’14) has received the Henry A. Wallace Award from the Agricultural History Society for his 2024 work,\u00a0Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab<\/a><\/em> (Stanford UP). The Wallace prize recognizes the best book on agricultural history outside of the United States. The prize committee offered the following appraisal of Labors of Division<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Navyug Gill\u2019s\u00a0Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab<\/em>\u00a0traces the invention of a peasantry in the context of colonialism and demonstrates how \u2018landless laborer\u2019 and \u2018landowning peasant\u2019 emerged as vital political, cultural, and economic categories in the making of global capitalism under colonialism. The ambitious book weaves together a wide variety of sources to generate a history that deeply troubles our received understanding of the role of \u2018peasants\u2019 and \u2018the peasantry\u2019 and the position of agriculture within the history of political economy. In Gill\u2019s capable hands, we must reckon with the surprising idea that modernity was not the death of the peasant, but its site of origin. This book challenges a range of fields in the social sciences and humanities by questioning one of the fundamental categories\u2014the peasant\u2014mobilized at the birth of foundational political and economic theories across the disciplines.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Gill completed his doctoral work under the advisement of Dr. Gyanendra Pandey<\/a>, and he is currently Associate Professor in the Department of History, Philosophy and Liberal Studies at William Paterson University. His scholarly and public writings have appeared in venues such as Past and Present<\/em>, the Journal of Asian Studies<\/em>, Economic and Political Weekly<\/em>, Outlook<\/em>, Al Jazeera<\/em>, Scroll<\/em>, the Law and Political Economy Project<\/em>, Borderlines <\/em>and Trolley Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doctoral program alum Navyug Gill (’14) has received the Henry A. Wallace Award from the Agricultural History Society for his 2024 work,\u00a0Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab (Stanford UP). The Wallace prize recognizes the best book on agricultural history outside of the United States. The prize committee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-alumni","category-awards","category-publications","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7597,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7592\/revisions\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}