Explain the concept of jajmani system
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According to the Jajmani System, there is exchange of goods and services between landowning higher castes and landless service castes.
According to the Jajmani System, there is exchange of goods and services between landowning higher castes and landless services between landowing higher castes and landless service castes.
The terminology of Jajmani System was introduced into the Indian social anthropology by William Wiser.
This coercive system gave rise to a rebellion of the lower castes against the jamindars in the Telangana region in 1946.Various studies of the Jajmani system in India have been made. Oscar Lewis studied Jajmani in North Indian villages. Jajmani in Eastern U.P was studied in 1955 by Opler and Singh and in 1955 N.S. Reddy studied this system in North India. Miller studied Jajmani system in Cochin in 1952, and in 1955, Sri Niwas and Bir Singh studied the same system in Mysore District. S.C. Dube’s Indian villages are based on his classics study of Jajmani in Hyderabad. Jajmani in Tanjore was studied by though in 1955. In Gujarat Jajmani was studied by steel in 1953. An early study, in 1934, of Jajmani in Punjab was made by darling. All these studies revealed and confirmed the universality of this system in Rural India but they also revealed that there were minor variations in the system from regions to region.
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