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Manohar Punjab and the Raj 1849-1947

Name: Punjab and the Raj 1849-1947
Brand: Manohar
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This classic study of the Punjab province of British India focuses on the role which it played as a bastion of imperial interests and the resulting legacies for its politics. The province was both the ‘sword arm’ and the ‘breadbasket’ of India. The British recruited into the Indian Army, Punjabi Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus from the so-called ‘martial castes.’ They were rewarded with tracts of lands in the new canal colonies which were created in a massive irrigation development from the 1880s. The social engineering which accompanied the transformation of the barren ‘waste’ of the West Punjab formed part of the economic and political entrenchment of loyalist landowning elites. The 1901 Punjab Alienation of Land Act stemmed their expropriation by urban moneylenders as a result of rising indebtedness. The resulting provincial particularities of an urban-rural divide which cut across communal identities, forms an important counter-narrative to the ‘inevitability’ of Partition in the province which Jinnah dubbed the ‘corner-stone’ of Pakistan. The volume describes both the rise of the cross-community Unionist Party and the historical contingencies attendant on the Second World War which eventually enabled the Muslim League's crucial breakthrough in the region.

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Brand: Manohar
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 8185054452
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 June 2025
Listed Since: 01 March 2010

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