The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947
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1st ed.
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ISBN
0195799240
Length
xi+264p., Tables.
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This comprehensive survey of British Rule in the Punjab demonstrates that colonial policy-making led to many of the socio-economic and political problems currently plaguing Pakistan and Indian Punjab. Subordinating development goals to its political and military imperatives, the colonial state co-operated with the dominant social classes, the members of which became the major beneficiaries of agricultural colonization. Even while the rulers tried to use the vast ...
