book chapter
South west
Wisdom and waste in the Punjab village • • Published In 1934 • Pages: 206-232
By: Darling, Malcolm.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an account of a British colonial administrator's inspection of several villages in a new canal colony, based on interviews with inhabitants. Descriptions include who the new settlers are, the sizes of their families and farms, household budgets and financing, water costs and shortages, moneylenders, and local corruption. An assessment of the overall government costs of the program is also given.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Water supply
- Settlement patterns
- Income and demand
- Price and value
- Standard of living
- 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
- March 1931
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1928-1931
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pakpattan and Vehari districts, Punjab, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Malcolm Lyall Darling
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 35005788
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peasantry--Punjab
- Usury--Punjab
- Punjab--Economic conditions
- Punjab (Pakistan)--Social life and customs
- Land reform--Pakistan--Punjab (Province)