A broken record : institutions, community, and development in Pakistan / Atiyab Sultan.

By: Sultan, Atiyab [author].

Material type: Text

Text Language of document:EnglishPublisher: 2022Description: xiii, 229 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781108832632.Subject(s): Rural development -- India -- Punjab | Community development -- India -- Punjab | POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General | Punjab (India) -- Economic policy | Punjab (India) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century | Punjab (Incia) -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 330.954552

Contents:

Introduction: Institutions, Debt, and the Deadweight of History, -- Punjab c. 1900-47 -- Glass Half Full? Two Views of the Punjab -- An Alternative Economic History of the Punjab -- Combating Indebtedness I: Laws and Institutions -- Combating Indebtedness II: Community Development in Colonial Punjab -- The Bureaucrat's Burden: Tales of Reform and Development -- Colonialism and the Discourse on Development.

Summary: "A Broken Record examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicize theories of institutional change and community development. It advances the economic history of the region by analysing microeconomic reform in the province. A close examination of programmes of rural reconstruction in colonial Punjab reveals stark parallels with more contemporary prescriptions of development economics. Simultaneously, a study of the trajectory of legislative change sheds light on the institutional legacies of colonial rule. The book engages deeply with the theoretical scholarship on development and rural uplift that emerges in this period and develops an intellectual genealogy that links colonialism to development studies. It questions the continued valorization of the 'community' despite a lack of supportive evidence and argues that one reason for the continued popularity of ideas of community development and institutional malaise is that both absolve the status quo from blame"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Social Science	Social Science Collections	330.954552 Su59 Br (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		271536

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Broken Record examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicize theories of institutional change and community development. It advances the economic history of the region by analysing microeconomic reform in the province. A close examination of programmes of rural reconstruction in colonial Punjab reveals stark parallels with more contemporary prescriptions of development economics. Simultaneously, a study of the trajectory of legislative change sheds light on the institutional legacies of colonial rule. The book engages deeply with the theoretical scholarship on development and rural uplift that emerges in this period and develops an intellectual genealogy that links colonialism to development studies. It questions the continued valorization of the 'community' despite a lack of supportive evidence and argues that one reason for the continued popularity of ideas of community development and institutional malaise is that both absolve the status quo from blame"-- Provided by publisher.

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