A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan Sultan Atiyab
A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan Sultan Atiyab This book examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicise theories of…
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A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan Sultan Atiyab
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. A close examination of programmes of rural reconstruction in colonial Punjab reveals stark parallels with more contemporary prescriptions of development economics. It advances the economic history of the region by analysing microeconomic reform in the province.
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. Simultaneously, a study of the trajectory of legislative change sheds light on the institutional legacies of colonial rule. It questions the continued valorisation of the 'community' despite a lack of supportive evidence and argues that one reason for the continued popularity of