The Co-operative Movement in the Punjab
The Co-operative Movement in the Punjab

Author: Ata Ullah

Publisher:

Published: 1937

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13:

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From the Table of Contents: The Punjab --- Agricultural indebtedness and some aspects of rural credit in the Punjab --- Money-lending in the Punjab --- Co-operation --- Co-operation in India --- The dawn of co-operation in the Punjab --- Types of societies recommended --- Primary agricultural credit societies --- Central societies. The Punjab co-operative union.

A Broken Record
A Broken Record

Author: Atiyab Sultan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-31

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1009276573

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This book examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicise theories of institutional change and community development. It advances the economic history of the region by analysing microeconomic reform in the province. A close examination of programmes of rural reconstruction in colonial Punjab reveals stark parallels with more contemporary prescriptions of development economics. Simultaneously, a study of the trajectory of legislative change sheds light on the institutional legacies of colonial rule. It engages deeply with the theoretical scholarship on development and rural uplift that emerges in this period and develops an intellectual genealogy that links colonialism to development studies. It questions the continued valorisation of the 'community' despite a lack of supportive evidence and argues that one reason for the continued popularity of ideas of community development and institutional malaise is that both absolve the status quo from blame.