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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.
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