Identifying the ‘agriculturists’ in the Burma Delta in the colonial period: A new perspective on agriculturists based on a village tract's registers of holdings from the 1890s to the 1920s

TitleIdentifying the ‘agriculturists’ in the Burma Delta in the colonial period: A new perspective on agriculturists based on a village tract's registers of holdings from the 1890s to the 1920s
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Year of Publication2011
AuthorsMizuno A
Secondary TitleJournal of Southeast Asian Studies
Volume42
Issue3
Pagination405-434
Key themesAgriculturalModernization, Dispossession-grabbing, Distribution
Abstract

According to the existing studies on Myanmar's economic history, agricultural land in the Lower Myanmar delta was transferred from 'agriculturists' to 'non-agriculturists' under British colonial rule. However, a clear distinction could not be drawn between the agriculturists and non-agriculturists as was generally thought with respect to their economic activity. More importantly, the categories could be applied interchangeably. The purpose of this study is to reconsider the very concept of'agriculturist' as a colonial category in British Burma by exploring the hitherto unused register of holdings (Register I A, U pain hmatpoun sayin).
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Myanmar
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Journal Article