Study on the Village Economy of Colonial Burma(Myanmar) Based on an Analysis of Contract Documents(Chitti Sajouk)

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19330075
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Economic history
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	TAKAHASHI Akio 東京大学, 東洋文化研究所, 教授 (90282706)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2010
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
Budget Amount *help	¥13,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,000,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000) Fiscal Year 2007: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Keywords	経済史 / 農業経済学 / 植民地経済 / アジア研究 / ミャンマー / 土地制度史
Research Abstract	Various written contracts on agricultural lands were made between landlords and tenants, moneylenders and farmers, sellers and buyers, inheritees and inheritors, etc. under the British rule in Burma(Myanmar). The types of contracts were mortgage, pawn, trade, inheritance, etc. Those are called "Chitti Sajouk "s and we can collect them even nowadays. However, no one has used them as materials for studying economic history of Myanmar. This research project included collecting many Sajouks, classifying and filing them, and creating databases by scanning and tabulating. Moreover, it provided the foundation for reconstructing colonial history of Myanmar from the viewpoint of farmer and villagers.