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Describe the main characteristics of the Jajmani system. Do you agree with the view that it is basically an institution of politico-economic dominance and dependence?

  • UPSC 1984
  • Caste System

The jajmani system is the hereditary arrangement by which landowning patron households, the jajmans, received services from artisan and servicing castes — variously kamin, praja, balutedar — in return for a customary share of the harvest rather than a wage. William Wiser, whose The Hindu Jajmani System (1936) from Karimpur in Uttar Pradesh gave the…

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  • Main characteristics
  • The reciprocity reading
  • Dominance and dependence: the stronger case
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