Seßhaftmachung von Nomaden in der Upper Sind Frontier Province (Pakistan) im 19. Jahrhundert — Ein beitrag zur Entwicklung und gegenwärtigen situation einer peripheren region in der dritten welt

Abstract

It is generally assumed that the causes of underdevelopment in the countries of the Third World lie either in the consequences of a society and an economy which is insufficiently capable of developing dynamic forces or in the results of the dependence in which the so-called developing countries are kept for reasons of a global division of labour. At present there is a widespread discussion concerning this complex of questions, and the literature on the subject can hardly be surveyed any longer; however, there is a lack of studies which deal empirically with the problem of the causes of underdevelopment. Giving the example of the Upper Sind Frontier Province the present article will try to show how an almost uninhabited and originally inhospitable area was changed, by outside influences (British colonial administration), into an area of permanent settlement. This result was achieved both by the improvement of the irrigation, traffic, settlement and administration systems and by the partly enforced settlement of nomads. In the present article the way in which these nomads were led to sedentariness and, resulting from this, the consequences in the socio-economic sphere are regarded as the causes which made the Upper Sind Frontier Province one of the areas in Pakistan which present the most difficult problems.