University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses November 2016 Colonial and Post-Colonial Origins of Agrarian Development: The Case of Two Punjabs Shahram Azhar University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the Economic History Commons, Growth and Development Commons, and the Political Economy Commons Recommended Citation Azhar, Shahram, "Colonial and Post-Colonial Origins of Agrarian Development: The Case of Two Punjabs" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations. 726. https://doi.org/10.7275/9043142.0 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/726 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE COLONIAL AND POST COLONIAL ORIGINS OF AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE OF TWO PUNJABS A Dissertation Presented By SHAHRAM AZHAR Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2016 Economics © Copyright by Shahram Azhar 2016 All Rights Reserved THE COLONIAL AND POST COLONIAL ORIGINS OF AGRARIAN DEVELOPMENT: A CASE OF TWO PUNJABS A Dissertation Presented by SHAHRAM AZHAR Approved as to style and content by: ___________________________________________ Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji, Co-Chair ___________________________________________ Deepankar Basu, Co-Chair ___________________________________________ Priyanka Srivastava, Member ___________________________ Michael Ash, Department Chair Economics For Stephen Resnick; a teacher, mentor, and comrade. i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study owes a debt to many people from different parts of the world.