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Empire and the Peasant Proprietor
Preet S. Aulakh
2025
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As the British Empire consolidated its geographical possession of distant lands by the nineteenth century, the agrarian nature of its colonies necessitated careful considerations about land tenure relationships. After intense debates around property rights and political economy, several land laws were enacted across the Empire between 1868 and 1875, which recognised the proprietary rights of peasant cultivators. Empire and the Peasant Proprietor examines this transformative shift in the imperial approaches to land tenure. Through a comparative analysis of historical land tenure arrangements in three diverse colonial sites—Punjab, Ireland, and Prince Edward Island—the book identifies two crucial mechanisms that facilitated the institutionalisation of peasant proprietorship. One was a fortuitous ideological alignment between important governing agents in the three colonies. Two, the debate about the impact of land reform in the colonies on the ‘sanctity’ of English principles was redirected, allowing for inter-colony analogies and precedents to support the proprietary rights of peasant cultivators. Empire and the Peasant Proprietor demonstrates the importance of these reciprocal influences within the imperial system and provides insight into contemporary challenges of secure land rights for a large proportion of the global population that continues to be dependent on agriculture for sustenance.
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Keywords
- British Empire
- Customary rights
- institutional change
- Inter-colony analogies
- Land reform
- Land tenure
- legal history
- Peasant proprietors
- Property rights
- Tenant rights
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services
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DOI: 10.1093/9780198928270.001.0001Editions