the punjab land alienation act was passed in 1906.
when was the punjab land alienation act passed?
1906
punjab land alienation act, 1900





















































the punjab land alienation act of 1900 was a piece of legislation introduced by the british raj with the aim of limiting the transfer of land ownership in punjab province. it created a 





















































an "agricultural tribes" category, the membership of which was almost compulsory to buy or sell land.





















































section::::background.
punjab land alienation act, 1900
darling thought that moneylenders were exploiting the situation and that the peasants were particularly exposed to problems should they suffer some natural or personal calamity, with debts sometimes doubling within a space of five years because of interest charges and families potentially being faced with repayments over several generations. he want to expand the co-operative credit facilities to improve the situation as well as to set up courts for arbitration and to introduce measures to increase prosperity without recourse to debt, such as animal breeding centres. he estimated that the number of moneylenders and dependants in punjab had quadrupled between 1868 and 1911, and the decline in prices for agricultural produce that followed the end of world war i made the repayment of debt even more difficult. he noted that the moneylenders were generally hindus and the peasants were mostly muslim, a situation that prevailed despite the intent of the punjab land alienation act, 1901. his attitude to the moneylenders was not, however, entirely negative: he recognised the significance of their accessibility and the historic good that they had brought to regional development. at the same time, he was criticising their usurious nature, which, he thought, was being implicitly accepted by the unwillingness of the raj authorities to intervene. his 1925 book, "the punjab peasant in prosperity and debt", is a classic work of research, analysis and prescription, which demonstrated, according to d. n. dhanagare, that he was "far ahead of his time".
malcolm lyall darling