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KINSHIP, HONOUR AND MONEY IN RURAL PAKISTAN

NORDIC INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES

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KINSHIP, HONOUR AND MONEY IN RURAL PAKISTAN

SUBSISTENCE ECONOMY AND THE EFFECTS OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

ALAIN LEFEBVRE

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Monograph Series, No. 78

First published in 1999

by Curzon Press

Published 2013 by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

711 Third Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Typesetting by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Alain Lefebvre 1999

Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from the Danish Council for Development Research (Danida)

British Library Catalogue in Publication Data

Lefebvre, Alain

Kinship, Honour and Money in Rural Pakistan : subsistence economy and the effects of international migration. - (NIAS monographs ; no. 78)

1.Men - Employment - Pakistan - Punjab 2.Labour mobility

3.Labour policy - Pakistan - Punjab 4.Punjab (Pakistan) - Economic conditions 5.Punjab (Pakistan) - Social conditions 6.Punjab (Pakistan) - Economic policy

I.Title

331.09545

ISBN 13: 978-0-700-70984-7 (hbk)

To my parents and Gunilla

CONTENTS

Figures

Entrance to Chahiwala village

General view of Baranpur

Boys school in Chahiwala

Girls school in Chahiwala

The Quranic school in Chahiwala

Traditional forms of ploughing (Chahiwala)

Goats returning from the fields at the end of the afternoon (Chahiwala)

Idd-ul-Fitr festival in the house of the leader of the Virck biraderi (Chahiwala)

People of the class of craftsmen harvesting rice under the supervision of the landowner, seen smoking a water-pipe (Chahiwala)

Old landowner couple harvesting their wheat fields (Baranpur)

Police and army forces are common job opportunities for the villagers

Private rice-mills in Siranwali offer some of the few renumerated jobs to villagers

Barbers shop at the bridge over the Upper Marala-Ravi Link (Chahiwala)

Tailor stitching clothes before the celebration of the Idd-ul-Fitr festival (Chahiwala)

Friday cattle market in Siranwali, where people of the Fakir zat are involved in buffalo trading

Hussain from the Kashmiri zat prepares sweets for a landowners household where a wedding is taking place

Professional storyteller of the Qureshi zat (Chahiwala)

Professional entertainers of the Merassi zat playing music in the households of landowners after the rice harvest

Extended family of a migrant working in Abu Dhabi (Chahiwala)

Amir, headman of his biraderi, surrounded by his relatives (Chahiwala)

Holding ostentatious wedding parties is one of the main uses of foreign remittances. Here a son of a barbers family gets married, wearing necklaces of banknotes

A traditional house of a family without a migrant (Chahiwala)

Migrants houses are large, have several storeys, and are made of brick

Wheat-grinder purchased with migrants remittances (Baranpur)

Landowner woman cleaning seeds from cotton (Chahiwala)

Landowner woman threshing wheat (Baranpur)

Aisha, of the water-carrier zat, roasts wheat (Chahiwala)

Shaheda in her shop (Chahiwala)

Woman of the craftsmens class making a basket (Chahiwala)

Display of a brides dowry in a migrants household (Chahiwala)

Dispute between Sultana and women from her tenants biraderi (Chahiwala)

Fresh chapatis are a must at every meal (Baranpur)

Fetching water is a daily duty for young girls (Baranpur)

Maps

The northern area of the Punjab showing the placement of Chahiwala and Baranpur

Chahiwala

Baranpur (central part)

Dhok Dhimal

Dhok Ghazi

Tables

Division of landholdings in both villages (in acres)

Sub-division of landholdings in the village with rainfed agriculture

Breakdown of Baranpur landowners according to religion before Partition (no. of households)

Breakdown of Baranpur tenants according to religion before Partition (no. of households)

Distribution of craftsmen in Chahiwala village (1981)

Distribution of the landowners zat in Chahiwala village (1981)

Breakdown of the Chahiwala population in 1982

Breakdown of the Baranpur population in 1982

The agricultural cycle in Chahiwala

The agricultural cycle in Baranpur

Prices of domestic animals in both villages

Average expenditure for fertilizers and HW seeds in the two villages (Rs per year)

Evolution of the landowner population in Baranpur (no. of households)

Distribution of households in Chahiwala according to source of income

Distribution of households in Baranpur according to source of income

Average monthly budget of landowners in Chahiwala (in Rs)

Average monthly budget of landowners in Baranpur (in Rs)

Rates of the annual seypi payment for the blacksmith-carpenter in Chahiwala

Monthly budget of craftsmen in the two villages (in Rs)

Chahiwala villagers opinion on international labour migration (in households without migrants)

Baranpur villagers opinion on international labour migration (in households without migrants)

Level of education and occupation of a sample of migrants from the landowner class

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