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Show 223 Pakistan and went to India. In 1950 legislation passed in East was Pakistan which outlawed the Zamindari system and which pretty effec tively abolished landlordism. more would, of course, have been much (zamindars) difficult to pass such legislation had the landlords been Muslim and had As the West. they remained in East Pakistan as was political accident rather than from any social In any the that Zamindars than in the West equalitarian were wing with the average farm size in ones). 83 Hindus gave a The considerably more socially equal due to such character to the rural but it did not result in any notable improvement in agricultural performance. worse (including the non departure of the Landown ing and moneylending population of East Pakistan got In some done through In sum, or even land reform per that if we can even previously made sure the contributed labor services of their tenants, land reform in East Pakistan did not have noticable things cases things as failure to maintain drainage canals, embankments and the like which the Zamindars had were 1968 In Agriculture the average Pakistan 2.59 acres per agricultural household size was owning Survey of East I'1aster a Hindus Significantly 1960 being 3.54 acres according to the agricultural census, according to "land pressureso,,82 land distribution in East Pakistan is case in case Angus Maddison puts it concerning East Pakistan reform derived from the more It output increasing impact. se an Too much is by many observers and policy makers, important expected of They feel just get land ownership for the cultivators agriculture ldll take care of itself. of Doreen Warriner, one This is certainly not the case as the \010rk of the best known students of and writers on |
