A broken record, institutions, community, and development in Pakistan, Atiyab Sultan
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A broken record, institutions, community, and development in Pakistan, Atiyab Sultan
Language
eng
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A broken record
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
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1343197378
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Atiyab Sultan
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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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institutions, community, and development in Pakistan
Summary
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.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Institutions, Debt, and the Deadweight of History, -- Punjab c. 1900-47 -- Glass Half Full? Two Views of the Punjab -- An Alternative Economic History of the Punjab -- Combating Indebtedness I: Laws and Institutions -- Combating Indebtedness II: Community Development in Colonial Punjab -- The Bureaucrat's Burden: Tales of Reform and Development -- Colonialism and the Discourse on Development
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