Open AccessKamal Siddiqui. Land Management in South Asia: A Comparative Study. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997. 484 pages. Hardbound. Rs 595.00.
Author(s) -
Zulfiqar Ahmad Gill
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v39i3pp.276-278
Subject(s) - tamil , prestige , bengal , sri lanka , politics , south asia , geography , economic growth , social science , agricultural economics , political science , sociology , development economics , socioeconomics , economics , law , ethnology , archaeology , philosophy , linguistics , bay
There is something refreshingly honest about Dr KamalSiddiqui’s writings on reform and management aspects of land in SouthAsia, where land is considered a source of prestige and political power.He has the analytical sharpness of an economist and the disciplinedcoolness of a bureaucrat. The author’s objective is to help shape landmanagement policy appropriate to the needs of South Asia. He selects forinvestigation the time-period from the late 1940s to the present andstudies seven entities: Punjab, Sindh, Utter Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh,Tamil Nadu, Bengal, and Bangladesh, in three countries, viz., Pakistan,India, and Bangladesh. However, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka have notbeen included. We do not know why these smaller but equally importantstates were omitted from the land management perspective.