Bonds Lost

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Bonds Lost

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Author: Gunnel Cederlöf

Type: Hardback

ISBN: 9788173041938

Date: 6th December, 2023

Publisher: MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

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  2. Social And Ethical Issues
  3. Asian

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Social relations in rural south India have often been studied from either a perspec­tive of labour and economic exploitation or one of dominance and subordination in terms of caste or exercise of political power. In Bonds Lost, the author argues that relations between landowners and agricultural labourers cannot be understood without taking account of both the economic and the social logic of the relationship. From a variety of government, mission and oral sources, the author analyses the transformation of rural social relations in the central parts of the highlands in today's western Tamil Nadu between c. 1900 and 1970. Throughout the expansion of commercial crops in agriculture, in particular of the cultivation of cotton, the farming community of Goundar and the agricultural labourers of the Madhari leather-working community have been closely related to each other. There has been a mutual, however, uneven dependence between the two; the farmers being dependent on the skills of leather workers to manage the irrigation, the Madhari equally dependent on the farmers for their own survival.

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