http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/677 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:06:35 GMT 2026-04-07T20:06:35Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16961 The State of Lahore Under Colonialism: A Political Economic Analysis Shahnaz Rouse PP. 120; ill Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16961 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16960 British Administration in Agrarian Punjab (1849-1906): order versus transformation Maham Hameed PP. 32; ill Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16960 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16850 The State of Lahore Under Colonialism: A Political Economic Analysis Shahnaz Rouse This paper by Professor Shahnaz Rouse, Sarah Lawrence College, New York was written when she spent time at the Lahore School of Economics, as a visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies, to contribute to its recently started long-term project on the “Economic History of Pakistan since the Mughals 1520-2020”. As Professor Rouse points out, her study forms part of a larger project on Lahore she is undertaking and this working paper is also work in progress which will be published as a monograph by the Lahore School of Economics during next year. The paper traces the colonial history of Lahore and within it examines three issues: first, military-geo strategic pre-occupations (divided further into shifting borders and boundaries, (re)making bodies, mobilities, policing and resistance); second, economic aspects with a detailed analysis of the coming of railways, railway workshops and new job opportunities and its socio-economic implications for the city; and third a (re)turn to representation which according to the author “came to rest solely on the surface, on the appearance of things, i.e. their legibility”. This working paper will be of considerable interest to both more general readers on the development of Lahore under colonial rule but will especially appeal to both economists and economic historians given its detailed and carefully nuanced political economy approach which brings out the economic forces that interacted with the emergence of new classes and which then shaped socio-economic changes in Lahore during this period. PP. 120; ill Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16850 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16849 British Administration in Agrarian Punjab (1849-1906): order versus transformation Maham Hameed This paper is part of the project of the Lahore School of Economics started in 2017 on “An Economic History of Pakistan in an Historical Perspective”. The aim of this paper is to understand the land tenure system that was put in place in Punjab from 1846 till 1906 keeping in view the conflicting concerns for order and transformation of the colonial government. The paper argues that the colonial government’s somewhat idealistic vision of modernization of the agrarian structures came in constant clash with its need for political stability in the region. When faced with resistance of the well-entrenched landed classes against the ideals of transformation, the colonial rulers had to make significant compromises. Eventually the balance of forces tilted in favour of political stability and the state had to withdraw from its previously interventionist role as far as its land policy was concerned. PP. 32; ill Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/16849 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z