%0 Journal Article %T Book review: James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States %A Kumkum Roy %J Studies in History %@ 0973-080X %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0257643018804314 %X James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London, 2017, xiv + 300 pp., $26.00 %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0257643018804314