Students of the land ownership patterns in Pakistan have
always been hampered by extreme lack of data, neither the 1960 census
nor the 1972 census reveal anything about the actual ownership structure
of land. Khan's book goes some distance in providing numbers on land
ownership (for 1971 and 1976), and also documents methods and failures
of land reform efforts over the past century in Pakistan, disaggregated
to show efforts in this regard in both the provinces of Sind and Punjab.
The book actually provides an overwhelming amount of data - some 87
pages of charts and tables document a book of under 200 pages of
text.