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Write short note: The share-croppers’ movement in India.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Social Movements in Modern India

The sharecropper — bargadar or adhiar in Bengal, batai or sanjha elsewhere — cultivates another's land for a share of the crop, holding no recorded right in it. In Daniel Thorner's scheme he belongs with the mazdoors, the stratum whose income comes from working others' land. Their movements are therefore struggles over the division of…

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