Definition

In 1910 G. P. Tate, who worked on the Survey of India, including Sistān, Baluchistān and Afghanistān, gave the first definition of bunah as a rural network for collective farming. He stated that in each village the villagers were divided into groups of sharecroppers called pāgū (or pāgāw). Each group cultivated a patch of land that was designated for them on an equal basis. The number of indivi…