Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 162)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 162)

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Moreover,
land dimunition and the shrinking
pushed land prices further up and
instance it was reported that some
the produce as rent to the landlord.
pressure placed on the land as a result of indebtedness,
of the size of cultivable land had
increased rent on land. In one
peasants had to pay 50 per cent of
The most common rent paid during
this period was recorded at 30 per cent of the produce with the tenant
paying the tithe, or 40 per cent and the landlord paying the tithe.
(78) Yet, of particular significance in this period was the
emergence of money rents as an increasingly favoured arrangement
between the tenant and the landlord.
mils to 250 mils per dunam were commonly used.
Dimunition of land,
led to competition on land.
further the value of land. Thus in
as ".. owned,
an adjoining village rent 5,600d",
higher rents and higher land prices had
Competition,
but not yet settled,
Money rents, varying between 50
(79)
also
in turn, escalated still
one case where land was described
by Jews, of which Arab tenants in
the following was reported:
Up to the year 1926-27, the cultivators paid 20
percent of the produce in kind. Since then, the
lease has been put up to public auction and in
1927-8 produced P.L. 260 in 1928-9, P.L. 400 and
in 1929-30 P.L. 525. (80)
The rise in rent, which in this case amounted to over 100 per
cent, meant that, while the class of landowners could continually
expand their capital, the cultivators were sunk further and further
into indebtedness.
Extensive data has been provided in this chapter in order to
remove any doubt about the real nature of so-called "land transfer" in
Palestine.
The cas?s of the Marj, Zeita and Wadi al-Hawareth, among others,
demonstrate that legalistic, political and blatantly illegal forces
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