Labour Bondage in West India: From Past to Present"In continuation of his study of the underclass in rural Gujarat, Jan Breman's present book traces the historical antecedents of the ongoing subordination of rural labor. He takes a retrospective look at the dynamics of social and political developments before and since Independence. This forms the basis of his new fieldwork in south Gujarat carried out between 2004 and 2006." "This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, development studies, and labour studies."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Land Rights on the Tribal Frontier before the Colonial Era | 1 |
The System of Bonded Labour Revisited | 35 |
The Agrarian Question in the Struggle | 73 |
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activists adivasis agitation agrarian agricultural labourers Ahmedabad AIKS Anavil Brahmans ashram Bardoli Baroda became Bombay Presidency bondage bonded labour Breman British Bulsar called campaign Census of India Chikhli Collector of Surat colonial authorities Committee Congress movement cultivators debt Delhi Desai Dhodhias Dinkar Mehta dominant landowners Dublas economic elite fieldwork Gandhi Gandhian Government of Bombay hali's halipratha system halis Halpatis Hardiman Haripura high-caste Hindu huts Independence interests kaliparaj Kanbi Kisan Sabha labour power landless labourers landlords landpoor live master meeting mobilization Narhari Parikh nationalist movement Navjivan Navsari nineteenth century official P.G. Shah Pardi Patidars peasants political population Prakash protest radical reforms refused regime relationship resistance revenue rupees rural Sardar Patel satyagraha servants servitude Settlement Report sharecroppers slavery social workers south Gujarat subdistrict subordination Surat district Swami Sahajanand taluka tax farmers Thorner took tribal twentieth century ujliparaj unfree labour Vallabhbhai Patel village wage Yagnik zamindars