Book
Landlord and peasant in Persia: a study of land tenure and land revenue administration
Oxford University Presss • London • Published In 1953 • Pages:
By: Lambton, Ann K. S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book gives the historical development, with much specific information, of land tenure in Persia from the time of the Muslim conquest through the reforms of Reza Shah and the constitution. The book contains valuable information concerning taxation on land and produce, landed classes and peasants, village structure, governmental exploitation, buying, selling, renting and inheritance of land, acquisition of property by various means, the shifts and movements in land ownership and property law. The author was an authority in this subject and has traveled widely in research for the book.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Arboriculture
- Water supply
- Property system
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Renting and leasing
- Classes
- Taxation and public income
- Legal norms
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iran
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- 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.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- Elizabeth Young ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 650-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ann K. S. Lambton
- 'Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.'
- A glossary of terms used extensively throughout the book was indexed for Glossary (104).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-421)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53002458
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iranians