1. Punjabisation of the Indian Army: Military expenditure and the Punjabis Brief History of the 'Native' Army--Military Expenditure and Punjabis--Military Income and Military Districts--Military Incomes, Expenditure Patterns, and Edification

2. Military Imperatives and Punjab's Agricultural Expansion
Defence Strategy and Economic Infrastructure Strategic Considerations and Agricultural Growth--Agricultural Production--The Commercialisation of Punjab Agriculture--Infrastructure and the Commercialisation of Punjab Agriculture

3. Recruited Peasants and the Restraint of Imperial Power Early Administration and 'Settling' the Influential--Recruited Peasantry and Agrarian Unrest: Indebtedness, Alienations and State Intervention--Military Districts and 'Political' Assessment: Revenue Demand and Revenue Remissions--Electoral Policy: Empowering the Allies--Other Paternal Policies

4. The Impact of Military Incomes: Amritsar District, C. 1865-1940 Amritsar District: Ajnala, Amritsar and Tarn Taran Tahsils--Population--Landhoiding by Communities--Average Size of Landholdings--Cultivating Occupancy of Land and Average Size of
Cultivation--Transfers and Alienations of Land

5. Constrained Colonialism and Resiticted Nationalism Military Considerations and Continued Paternalism--Reward's of Paternalism

6. Advantageous reciprocity