Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hegemony on a Shoestring: Indirect Rule and Farmers' Access to Resources -- 3. Inconclusive Encounters: Farmers and States in the Era of Planned Development -- 4. Commercialization, Cultivation, and Capital Formation: Agrarian Change in Four Localities -- 5. Access to Land: Property Rights as Social Process -- 6. Exploitation Without Dispossession: Markets, Networks, and Farmers' Access to Labor -- 7. Investing in Networks: Farmers' Uses of Income and Their Significance for Agrarian Change -- 8. Time Is of the Essence: Intensification, Instability, and Appropriate Technology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.