2.2 THE AGRARIAN REFORMS SINCE INDEPENDENCE
During the last years of the colonial era, numerous congresses
and commissions called for agrarian reforms and worked out
appropriate suggestions. If, prior to independence, the demand
for agrarian reforms was part of the strategy of the leading
parties to gain power, independence fostered not only a favourable
climate for such measures, but helped the new governments
to legitimize their power. Not only the motivation, but the
measures, too, were very similar in India and in Pakistan.
However, each time, they were enforced more rapidly and strictly
in India, whereas Pakistan showed more regard for the landowning
strata.
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