Colonial Political Economy Recruitment and Underdevelopment in the Punjab

by Pasha, Mustapha Kamal

• ISBN13: 9780195777628
• ISBN10: 019577762X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A product of original fieldwork in the barani ("rain-fed") area of the Punjab--and featuring a detailed examination of generally under-utilized archival materials in Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan--this book analyzes the localized processes of colonial political economy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	xi
Glossary	xv
Preface	xix
PART I INTRODUCTION
Introduction	3	(21)
Origins and Structures	3	(3)
Background	6	(5)
The Shift Towards the Punjab	11	(3)
The Case	14	(3)
Sources	17	(2)
Plan of the Study	19	(5)
The Official Story	24	(23)
Inventing Martiality	24	(6)
Theory and Practice	30	(5)
Fallacies and Inconsistencies	35	(3)
Morphology and Modernization	38	(9)
PART II PERSPECTIVES ON COLONIAL IMPACT
Colonialism and Underdevelopment	47	(34)
The Modernization Paradigm	47	(6)
Dependency Theory	53	(10)
The Marxist Perspective	63	(18)
The Structure of Colonial Capitalism	81	(40)
Economy	81	(5)
The State	86	(1)
The Classical View	86	(8)
The Peripheral State	94	(7)
The Colonial State	101	(3)
Economy and the State	104	(3)
Colonial Political Economy and Recruitment	107	(14)
PART III COLONIAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
The Colonial Social Formation	121	(30)
Pre-Colonial Social Formation	123	(5)
Assessing the Colonial Impact	128	(2)
Colonial Recruitment: 1600--1857	130	(8)
The Great Revolt	138	(13)
Colonial Political Economy and the Punjab	151	(38)
Pre-Colonial Punjab	152	(5)
Restructuring the Pubjab's Political Economy	157	(4)
Administrative Structure	161	(2)
Development of Colonial Capitalism	163	(6)
Effects of Colonial Capitalism	169	(8)
The Class Context of Recruitment	177	(12)
Colonial Political Economy and Tehsil Pind Dadan Khan	189	(48)
The Setting	190	(3)
Pre-Colonial Past	193	(6)
The Anatomy of Colonial Impact	199	(9)
Agricultural Performance	208	(13)
Cultivating Occupancy	221	(3)
Transfer of Land	224	(13)
PART IV TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION
Recruitment and Underdevelopment	237	(22)
Punjabization	238	(6)
Imperial Role	244	(8)
An Alternative Explanation: Underdevelopment	252	(7)
Conclusion	259	(14)
Selected Bibliography	273	(20)
Index	293