A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan - Hardcover

Sultan, Atiyab

 
9781108832632: A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1108832636 ISBN 13: 9781108832632
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This book examines economic reform in the Punjab in the period 1900-47 in an attempt to historicise 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. It 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 valorisation 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.

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About the Author

Atiyab Sultan is a career civil servant in the Pakistan Administrative Service currently serving as Additional Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108832636
ISBN 13 
9781108832632
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
230