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Why are the earlier cultivators are becoming agricultural labourers? Discuss in points

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Agricultural Labourers: Growth, Types and Economic Conditions

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In this article we will discuss about agricultural labourers in India:- 1. Growth of Agricultural Labourers 2. Types of Agricultural Labourers 3. Economic Conditions.

Growth of Agricultural Labourers:

Before the advent of the British, an outstanding feature of the Indian economy was “the self-subsisting and self-perpetuating” character of its villages. The village itself consumed most of the food stuffs and raw-materials produced within itself while its need for handicrafts was met by the local artisans.

Each farmer carried on the cultivation of his farm with the help of his own family members. In such a society, there was little room for the existence of an independent and distinct class of landless labourers