The paper presents a set of dynamic data (1951-81) on the concentration and dispossession of landownership/control in two villages of Bangladesh. Based on a prolonged and in depth fieldwork, the investigation reveals that richer households have been enlarging their share on the ownership/control of agricultural land at the expense of the poorer ones. The middle peasantry was also under tremendous economic pressure. A clear process of disintegration of the peasantry is certainly on.