villagiˈzation
[f. village n. + -ization.]
In Africa and Asia, concentration of population in villages; the transfer of control of land to villagers communally; in Tanzania, spec. = ujamaa. Cf. Bhoodan.
| 1963 Punch 10 July 42/1 ‘Villagisation’ is the word. 1965 P. Fordham Geogr. African Affairs iv. 85 Part of the security measures during the Mau Mau rebellion was the forcible ‘villagization’ of the Kikuyu and the consolidation of fragmented holdings. 1970 Guardian Weekly 22 Aug. 2 The majority of land-owners in more than 140,000 Indian villages have declared themselves in favour of Gramadan (gift of village),..which involves the principle of villagisation (as distinct from nationalisation) of land. 1980 Sci. Amer. Sept. 152/1 A campaign of ‘villagization’ was begun, and over the next several years a massive transfer of rural population was accomplished. |