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The province was both the sword arm' and the breadbasket' of India. The British recruited into the Indian Army, Punjabi Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus from the so-called martial castes.' They were rewarded with tracts of lands in the new canal colonies which were created in a massive irrigation development from the 1880s. The social engineering which accompanied the transformation of the barren waste' of the West Punjab formed part of the economic and political entrenchment of loyalist landowning elites. The 1901 Punjab Alienation of Land Act stemmed their expropriation by urban moneylenders as a result of rising indebtedness. The resulting provincial particularities of an urban-rural divide which cut across communal identities, forms an important counter-narrative to the inevitability' of Partition in the province which Jinnah dubbed the corner-stone' of Pakistan. 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