Dispossession and differentiation of the peasantry in the Punjab during colonial rule

Bibliographic Data

ID2158668
AuthorsNaved Hamid (0000-0003-3730-0886, University of the Punjab, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume10
Issue1
Pages52-72
Publication date1982-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066158208438189
OpenAlexW2142756884
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited3

The Punjab has often been described as a land of small peasant proprietors. This description may have been true when the British completed the colonization of India by conquering the Punjab in 1850. But this certainly was not the case at the end of British rule a hundred years later when less than four per cent of the agricultural population owned more than 50 per cent of the land while poor peasants, landless sharecroppers and agricultural labourers accounted for 80 per cent of the population. This paper documents this dramatic transformation and examines the process by which it came about

Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Colonization · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Peasant · Political science · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora

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