Introduction: The great agrarian conquest -- Masculine paternalism and colonial governance -- How villages were found -- In search of tenures -- The power of categories -- Codifying custom -- Remembered pasts -- Beyond the code -- Fear of the fragment -- Colonising the commons -- The promise of...

The military and economic development in Pakistan -- Punjab's state-society consensus on the military's dominance and economic role -- Research design, method, institutional issues, and scope of the military's land acquisitions -- The military's land acquisitions: high handedness and social...