The demographic upheaval of partition: Refugees and agricultural resettlement in India, 1947–67

Kudaisya, Gyanesh

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“…small and medium owner-cultivators) that were most likely to undertake the lumpy and/or risky investments required for improving agricultural productivity. 34 According to Kudaisya (1995) it was the superior risk taking ability of the refugee farmers that "enabled them to make significant changes in their methods of irrigation and farming" that were required for adopting HYVs during the green revolution.…”

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“…Since owner-cultivators have superior incentives relative to tenant farmers and landless labourers, 35 the redistribution of land contributed to agricultural technology adoption and productivity through through the channel of incentives. Indeed, Kudaisya (1995) credits the process through which evacuee land was redistributed to refugees with creating a system of peasant-proprietorships through which agriculturists in general were encouraged to 'work hard and stand on their own feet'. 34 The link between small and medium sized owner cultivators and intensity of agricultural technology adoption is well established in the literature.…”

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Displacement and development: Long term impacts of population transfer in India

Bharadwaj

Mirza

2019

Explorations in Economic History

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Section: Land Redistributionmentioning

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Section: Land Redistributionmentioning

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Displacement and development: Long term impacts of population transfer in India

Bharadwaj

Mirza

2019

Explorations in Economic History

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“…7 See for instance Randhawa (1954) out of Ashes, An Account of the Rehabilitation of Refugees from West Pakistan to the Rural Areas of East Aulakh (1998); Sims (1988); For an informative discussion of the success of the earlier phase of land consolidation in the Indian Punjab and its impact on investment in Tubewells and agricultural productivity see Kudaisya (1995) The Demographic Upheaval of Partition: Refugees and Agricultural Settlement in India, 1947-67 in South Asia, 18, Special Issue (1995, pp. 73-94; Also see Randhawa (1974) Green Revolution: A Case Study of Punjab.…”

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Rural Institutions and Planned Change in Agriculture: A Comparative Perspective in Two Punjabs

Mustafa¹,

Gill²,

Rashid³

1999

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Agricultural change in the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs has been brought about by their respective governments through formal organisations—cooperatives, credit banks, agriculture departments and/or special interest groups at the local level. The changes produced during 1960s and in subsequent period were dramatic but unsettling. Many have argued that the achievement of agricultural change in the region has depended to an important extent on the effectiveness of rural institutions in executing their role as agents of planned change.1 The present paper seeks to review the debate on the role of rural institutions in producing social and economic changes in the agrarian sectors of the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs and present some of the data which have stimulated this debate. The paper commences with an overview of the agrarian change in the two Punjabs. Then the programmes of planned change in the two regions are described, and the particular institution of change—cooperatives, credit banks, agricultural departments etc. are discussed in detail. At the specific level, the study aims at delineating the role played by rural institutions in initiating, stimulating, sustaining or retarding change in agriculture sectors of the two Punjabs. The role of rural institutions as a policy instrument for the promotion of agricultural expansion is examined. And finally the paper points out the implications of the past experience for the future role of rural institutions in the two Punjabs.

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“…Recent analysis of efforts to construct meanings out of partition's violence has focused, for example, on the resettlement of refugees and the "recovery" of abducted women. In the best of these works, the tensions between the experiences of individuals, and the attempts of the new states to give "national" meaning to the events of partition (by attempting to restore a patriarchal moral order in their wake), have helped to define the contours of a narrative of memory about partition (Menon and Bhasin 1998;Khudaisya 1995;Major 1995;Butalia 1993).…”

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Partition, Pakistan, and South Asian History: In Search of a Narrative

Gilmartin¹

1998

J of Asian Stud

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Few events have been more important to the history of modern South Asia than the partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947. The coming of partition has cast a powerful shadow on historical reconstructions of the decades before 1947, while the ramifications of partition have continued to leave their mark on subcontinental politics fifty years after the event.Yet, neither scholars of British India nor scholars of Indian nationalism have been able to find a compelling place for partition within their larger historical narratives (Pandey 1994, 204–5). For many British empire historians, partition has been treated as an illustration of the failure of the “modernizing” impact of colonial rule, an unpleasant blip on the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial worlds. For many nationalist Indian historians, it resulted from the distorting impact of colonialism itself on the transition to nationalism and modernity, “the unfortunate outcome of sectarian and separatist politics,” and “a tragic accompaniment to the exhilaration and promise of a freedom fought for with courage and valour” (Menon and Bhasin 1998, 3).

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The demographic upheaval of partition: Refugees and agricultural resettlement in India, 1947–67

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Displacement and development: Long term impacts of population transfer in India

Displacement and development: Long term impacts of population transfer in India

Rural Institutions and Planned Change in Agriculture: A Comparative Perspective in Two Punjabs

Partition, Pakistan, and South Asian History: In Search of a Narrative

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