book chapter
The western Punjab
Punjab peasant in prosperity and debt • [bombay • Published In 1947 • Pages: 93-110
By: Darling, Malcolm.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report on a tour and inspection of rural villages by a British colonial official, who notes how farming is relatively insecure in western Punjab due to a drier climate and flooding. Proprietor moneylending and tenant debt are discussed in detail.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Real property
- Borrowing and lending
- Renting and leasing
- Standard of living
- Disasters
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West Punjabi
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Helen Takacs; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1917-1919, 1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1917-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western Punjab Province, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Malcolm Darling
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 49026465
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Land tenure--Punjab
- Peasantry--Punjab
- Usury--Punjab
- Agricultural credit--Punjab
- Punjab--Economic conditions