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Title: | Examining British Agricultural Policies in Lower Egypt, 1882-1922 |
Author: | Chondoka, Yizenga A. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Transafrican Journal of History |
Volume: | 16 |
Pages: | 121-139 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Egypt Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism dual economy agricultural policy Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328624 |
Abstract: | This study examines British agricultural policies in Lower Egypt during the period 1882-1922. It distinguishes four phases in the transformation of agriculture: the era of Cromer, 1883-1907; the Gorst-Kitchener period, 1907-1914; the war period, 1914-1918; and the postwar period, 1918-1922. It shows how government assistance to the fellaheen (peasants) established an interaction between the traditional noncapitalist mode of production and the industrial, capitalist mode of production, affecting the peasants unfavourably, because their surplus was externalized to the metropole. A process of social differentiation took place among the fellaheen, resulting in the formation of a new class of rich farmers who had acquired land and adopted new farming techniques, while the majority of fellaheen became landless and jobless. Among the achievements of British agricultural policy were increasing agricultural exports and incomes, increasing investments outside agriculture, and some social legislation in favour of the fellaheen. Abstr., gloss., notes, ref. |