Atiyab Sultan

A Broken Record

Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 will be useful for readers interested in development studies, and South Asia, and in the long-lasting economic and institutional impacts of colonialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832632
• ISBN-10: 1108832636
• Artikelnr.: 63761929

Autorenporträt

Atiyab Sultan is a career civil servant in the Pakistan Administrative Service currently serving as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Figures and illustrations
Introduction - Institutions, debt and the deadweight of history: Punjab C.1900-1947
1. Glass half full? Two views of the Punjab
2. An alternate economic history of the Punjab
3. Combating indebtedness I - Laws and institutions
4. Combating indebtedness II - Community development in colonial Punjab
5. The bureaucrat's burden: Tales of reform and development
6. Colonialism and the discourse on development
Postscript
Bibliography.