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Common Lands in Colonial Punjab: Continuity and Change

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dc.contributor.author Chakravarty-Kaul, Minoti en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:41:36Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:41:36Z
dc.date.issued 1990 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-05-21 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-05-21 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2018
dc.description.abstract "This paper will examine the history and transformation of common lands in the Punjab in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Common lands in the nineteenth century were a category of long fallow or banjar kadim held and managed by the proprietary body or the malikan deh in the Punjab villages mainly for the purpose of pastoral and non-pastoral activities. They were therefore central to a system of village management which arranged the cultivated land in scattered strips and held on shares by the biswadars on a private, individual or family basis; and the waste in compact large holdings as communal property again held on shares. The biswadars thus held the entire land of the villages as members of the proprietary body. The common lands in the Punjab underwent change both as a category of land-use and as a class of property in the nineteenth century as a consequence of pressure on the villages exerted by factors external to them and due to internal change." en_US
dc.subject land tenure and use en_US
dc.subject common pool resources en_US
dc.subject Workshop en_US
dc.subject customary law en_US
dc.title Common Lands in Colonial Punjab: Continuity and Change en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.coverage.region Middle East & South Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country India en_US
dc.subject.sector Land Tenure & Use en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Colloquium at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates October 15, 1990 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Indiana University, Bloomington, IN en_US


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