The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 153)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 153)

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this institutional intervention aimed at improving taxation records and “the
collection of increased fees” from registration.” By the end of April 1947, the
area settled by title amounted to 5,243,000 dunums, and the area actually
registered by the end of December 1946 was 4,746,000 dunums” (i.e., about 62
percent of the cultivated area of 7,713,180 dunums).
Thus, by 1923, a government return showed that musha’a constituted 56
percent of land.”’ In 1929, another government return based in 104 villages
showed 46 percent of those lands held in musha’a.” By 1940, one estimate puts
musha’a held land at only 25 percent.’? Even if these estimates are only roughly
close to reality, they reflect an extremely fast pace in the breakdown of musha’a
tenure. On the other hand, the slow pace of the breakdown in musha’a prior to
WWI, besides being because of the more limited impact of market forces as
compared to the Mandate period, can also be sought by highlighting a major
difference between the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 and the British Land
(Settlement of Title) Ordinance of 1928: Whereas the 1928 ordinance explicitly
aimed at dissolving the musha’a by assigning title to specific pieces of land in
Ibid., 234.
Supplement, 29.
"™Hope-Simpson Report, 33.
"Ibid.
®Patai, “Musha’a Tenure,” 441. Warriner offers the same figure for the mid-
forties, Doreen Warriner, Land and Poverty in the Middle East (London: Royal
Institute of International Affairs, 1948), 67.
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