The jajmani system or yajman system was an economic system most notably found in villages of the Indian subcontinent in which lower castes performed various functions for upper castes and received grain or other goods in return. It was an occupational division of labour involving a system of role-relationships that enabled villages to be mostly self-sufficient.
The jajmanisystem or yajman system was an economic system most notably found in villages of the Indian subcontinent in which lower castes performed various...
complex barter system. The system had similarities to the jajmanisystem prevalent in North India during the same period. The balutedar system was supported...
both in North India and the Deccan. Writing in the context of how the jajmanisystem operated in the 1960s, Pauline Kolenda noted that the "caste function...
festival is linked not to the family, but to the village community and the jajmanisystem. The Brahmin puruhit (family priest) will visit all his jajmans (clients)...
Rural Servants in the 18th Century Maharashtrian Village – Demiurgic or JajmaniSystem? Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 12(2), pp. 14–40. B. K. Narayan...
village people. The terms of payment of balute differ from those of the jajmanisystem. The Bhavika Gurav are also known as Konkani Gurav. Citations Novetzke...
are numerically and politically powerful, and reject the traditional Jajmanisystem, which relies upon the Brahmanical notion of purity and pollution. The...
Rural Servants in the 18th Century Maharashtrian Village—Demiurgic or JajmaniSystem?. Hitotsubashi journal of economics, 12(2), pp.14-40. Nilekani, Harish...
Rural Servants in the 18th Century Maharashtrian Village—Demiurgic or JajmaniSystem?. Hitotsubashi journal of economics, 12(2), pp.14-40. MATE, M. S. (1996)...
as the highest village official. The durras employed variants of the jajmanisystem called vetti and baghela which forced families of peasants into bonded...
ISBN 9780521226929. Kolenda, Pauline Mahar (1963). "Toward a Model of the Hindu JajmaniSystem". Human Organization: Contours of Culture Change in South Asia. 22 (1)...
during festivals and official occasions in India Vetti or Jajmanisystem, a former feudal system in India where lower castes served the upper castes without...
interlinkages of caste relationships. Class relations were dominated by the jajmanisystem as well as by zamindari. Both these institutions together constituted...
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