The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 154)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 154)

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individual ownership, registration under the Ottoman code gave separate title deeds
for “shares” in the land of a village “without” dividing the land.’* In other
words, what the Ottoman code did not recognize was communal ownership (i.e.,
the land being held by the village as a unit), but the Ottoman state did not
generally interfere with the practice of musha’a as long as taxes were paid. This,
of course, made for better tax collection, which was one of the main aims of the
Land Code as part of the Tanzimat movement.
Another indicator of the impact of the Land (Settlement of Title) Ordinance
of 1928 on the breakdown of Musha’a can be seen by comparing the number of
land title registration before and after the promulgation of the ordinance (see Table
3.4), although part of these lands was not held in musha’a at the time. Whereas the
average number of registrations in the 1921-1927 period was 7,763, in the next six
years (i.e., starting with the year of the ordinance), the number was doubled; and
in the next six years, it more than doubled. This land registration (i.e.,
Table 3.4. Annual Average Number of Title Registration
Years Number
1921-1927 7,763
1928-1933 16,199
1934-1939 35,733
1940-1945 36,298
Source: Derived from Survey I, 242.
“Firestone, “Land-Equalizing,” 107.
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