Classes and Agrarian Transition in Pakistan

Mahmood Khan
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Mahmood Khan: Simon Fraser University,Canada.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1983, vol. 22, issue 3, 129-162

Abstract: This is a study of class formation and agrarian transition in Pakistan. The process of class differentiation under way is a manifestation of capitalist development. The agrarian transition in Pakistan is reflected by the disintegration of the peasant and feudal systems. The approach adopted in this paper demystifies the process of agricultural development in an underdeveloped country where, with the expansion of forces of production, the precapitalist relations of production are slowly dissolving. It should also help in discovering the mechanism by which agricultural surplus is extracted from direct producers and rural poverty is perpetuated.

Date: 1983
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