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Evaluate critically the conditions of labour from 1200 – 1500 CE on the basis of historical sources.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Society, Culture and Economy in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Reconstructing the conditions of ordinary labour between 1200 and 1500 CE is a task the sources themselves make difficult, since most surviving chronicles were composed under royal or elite patronage.

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  • The Source Problem
  • Agricultural Labour: A Stratified Peasantry
  • Artisans and Karkhana Labour
  • Slavery and Unfree Labour
  • Gendered and Caste-Structured Labour
  • Urban Labour and the Weight of Political Instability

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