Book
Class and power in a Punjabi village
Monthly Review Press • New York • Published In 1977 • Pages:
By: Ahmad, Saghir.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book has four parts: an introduction by an outsider author, an ethnography of a Punjabi village, and two essays critiquing Western modernization and population control policies. In the main ethnography, the author examines how two major state policy initiatives implemented in 1959 regarding land reform and democratic electoral representation impacted village social, economic, and political organization. The policies did not achieve desired outcomes because of underlying class relations that perpetuated the traditional power structure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Population policy
- Real property
- Status, role, and prestige
- Castes
- Classes
- Community structure
- Informal in-group justice
- Form and rules of government
- Elections
- Agency
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Shahpur subdivision, Sargodha District, Punjab, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Saghir Ahmad ; introd. by Kathleen Gough
- Based on the author's thesis, Michigan State University, 1967
- includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76001663
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Villages--Pakistan--Punjab (Province)
- Land reform--Pakistan--Punjab (Province)
- Social classes--Pakistan--Punjab (Province)
- Punjab (Pakistan)--Rural conditions