Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 187)

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Colonial Capitalism and Rural Class Formation (ص 187)

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Table Three
Sources of Income for 23,573 Fallah Families:
1- Families live entirely from No. of families %
cultivation/total population 5,477 23.2
a) Those who hold over 240d. 3,873 16.4
5) Those who hold from 120-240d. 1,604 6.8
2-Farmers live partly from cultivation
and partly from hired labour 11,156 47.4
a) Those who hold 120-240d. 1,657 7.1
b) Holders of less than 120d. 8,396 35.6
c) Those who own trees only 1,103 4.4
3- Agricultural wage labourers 6,940 29.4
Total Families 23,573 100.0
Source: Johnson-Crosbie, Enquiry into the Economic Conditions of the
Agriculturists, 1930, p.21
The most obvious point in this table is that not a single fallah
with less than 120d. was able to survive from his land without
supplementing his income from outside labour. Moreover,among the 3,261
families who hold between 120-240 d. (categories 1.b and 2.a), 1,657
families or over 50 per cent were forced to supplement their living
by hiring themselves out. Only 5,477 families or 23.2 per cent of the
total population surveyed were found to be living entirely from their
holdings. 76.8 per cent of the total surveyed population, which
amounted to 18,096 families (categories 2 and 3) either possessed land
less than what was sufficient for their survival, and thus needed to
hire themselves outside their farms, or were without land at all
(categories 2.c and 3).
The fact that all censuses on agriculture were conducted with one
aim in mind, i.e., to perfect government taxation policies poses
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