ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews a story of the dramatic rise in new forms of internal migration tied to the emergence of a novel economic and political order. It also focuses on the contrary that agrarian postcolonial migrations were so large and took the directions that people did because they flowed along dynamic existing channels of regional and local mobility, which survived the economic depression, partition, and independence. The chapter analyses the changes stimulated by the creation of new sectors of the economy and describes the zonal labour market that emerged to serve them. Then it discusses mobility generated and sustained by the expansion of the state and it looks at processes of agrarian colonization which continued well into the period when agrarian frontiers are assumed to have closed. Finally, it draws attention to the one form of female migration that persisted even as others declined the migration of wives to their husband's homes.
