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Analyse the traditional production relations in Indian villages in the framework of the Jajmani System.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

Jajmani is the standard framework for traditional village production relations because it names the mechanism fastening caste, land and labour together. William H. Wiser's The Hindu Jajmani System (1936), from Karimpur in western Uttar Pradesh, supplied the term; everything since is an argument about what the mechanism actually did.

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