| Title: | Landlord and peasant in Persia: a study of land tenure and land revenue administration |
| Author: | Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton |
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| Language: | English |
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| Place: | London-New York |
| Publisher: | I. B. Tauris & Co |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Pages: | LXVI, 481 |
| ISBN: | 1850432937 |
| File: | PDF, MB |
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Ann K. S. Lambton. Landlord and peasant in Persia: a study of land tenure and land revenue administration. London-New York: I. B. Tauris & Co, 1991, XXXI+459 p. ISBN 1850432937
Note: First published in 1953 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs; reprinted in a revised edition in 1969.
Contents:
Origins: the Arab conquest
Revenue administration
The Iqṭāʻ system and the Seljūqs
The Mongols and the break with tradition
The growth of absolutism: the Ṣafavids
The Afsharid interlude: the rise of the Qājārs
The second half of the nineteenth century: the eve of reform
The constitution: the rise of Riẓā Shāh
The civil code
Irrigation
Ouqāf
Khāliṣeh
The large landed proprietors
Peasant proprietors and other small owners
Tribal areas
The crop-sharing peasant: security of tenure
The division of the crop: rents
Personal servitude and dues
The payment of the local officials
Flocks and pastures
The problems of the peasant: agricultural methods
The problems of the peasant: debt; standard of living
The future