Common Property Resources, Customary Law and Rural Self-Governing Institutions in the Colonial North India

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Chakravarty-Kaul, Minoti
Conference:	Common Property Conference, the Second Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Manitoba, Winnipeg
Conf. Date:	September 19-26, 1991
Date:	1991
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1216
Sector:	Social Organization History
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	IASC customary law--history common pool resources property rights--history self-governance--history village organization--history Workshop
Abstract:	"This paper attempts to follow the Colonial government's efforts to integrate nineteenth-century customary usages in rural Punjab into a system of Customary Law. This was a bid to rule the people by their own laws. Codification of customs and customary usages which regulated common lands in the Punjab villages provides a window to observe the transformation of institutions of self-governance as a result of the modernising influence of the Colonial Government."

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