ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the consequences of British changes in administration and law for the positions of the shaykhs and pashas and then turns to a more extensive discussion of the organization of land and labor on large estates and medium properties. It provides a discussion of how these classes fared during a period of rapid growth of exports, the period of the British occupation and administration, 1882-1914. The chapter focuses on the nature of the technical and social changes in agriculture, the ecological consequences of these changes, the reasons for the adoption of a new technique, and the impact of its adoption on the short-run class distribution of revenue. All of these themes have received much attention in recent studies of the "Green Revolution," and the chapter sheds further light on the nature of the interaction of technical changes in agriculture with the rural class structure in Third World countries.
