Feudalism in Pakistan

Feudalism In Pakistan

The feudal archetype in Pakistan consists of landlords with large joint families possessing hundreds or even thousands of acres of land. They seldom make any direct contribution to agricultural production. Instead, all work is done by peasants or tenants who live at subsistence level. In Pakistan's remote areas of Sind and Baluchistan province, one "periodically run into vast estates — ] — sometimes even operates a private prison in which enemies are placed, and sometimes makes local people dependant through debt bondage, generation after generation."

"The landlord, by virtue of his ownership and control of such vast amounts of land and human resources, is powerful enough to influence the distribution of water, fertilisers, tractor permits and agricultural credit and, consequently exercises considerable influence over the revenue, police and judicial administration of the area. but this is not the scene all over the pakistan. most of the Punjab, urban Sind and Khyber Pakhtonkhwah there no longer exists the agricultural feudal as harsh as it is described in the earlier lines.this situation only exists in rural Sind."