Land Reforms in Pakistan A Historical Perspective

Edited by Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi, Mahmood Hasan Khan and M. Ghaffar Chaudhry

in PIDE Books from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abstract: The socially divisive land-tenure system which Pakistan inherited and which, because of its inherent inequities, drives a wedge between a landlord and his tenant has been the subject of much concern and repeated studies by the country�s policy-makers. The inequities of the land-tenure system were the results of the high degree of land concentration, absentee landlordism, insecurity of tenure for share-croppers, and the extraction of excessive surplus as rent through batai, abwab and begar labour that prevailed at the time of Pakistan�s independence in 1947.

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Date: 1987 Written 1987 Originally published 1987.
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