The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1858887097

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-271916

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Bailey, Samuel http://d-nb.info/gnd/1055121706

Title:: A critical dissertation on the nature, measures and causes of value

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: The London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

Year of publication:: 1931

Scope:: xxviii, 255 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. On the Measure of Value proposed by Mr. Malthus

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166 THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM OF MOSLEM INDIA probably be a mistake to regard all the Brotherhoods as dating from the same period. The institution is undoubtedly very old, but, in the course of its long existence, many particular Brotherhoods may have disappeared, and many others mav have emerged. From what has been said already, it will be apparent that at this period there was considerable diversity of con- ditions in the villages of Northern India. The main types may be described as follows. First, there was the derelict village (wirdn), that is to say, an area recognised as a village, but uninhabited and uncultivated, presumably because the peasants had been driven, or induced, to abandon it. Next, there was the village without a resident population, culti- vated by inhabitants of other villages. These two classes were, so far as can be judged, of minor importance, and the bulk of the villages may be divided into those with a Brotherhood and those without. The Brotherhood villages may be classed as “pure” or “mixed,” the distinction turning on the presence of resident peasants outside the Brotherhood. The pure type was characteristic of that part of Bundelkhand which had come under British rule: in it, all the resident peasants were members of the Brotherhood, and, while individual members might cultivate land in another village as well as in their own, the resident peasant outside the Brotherhood was practically unknown. In the eyes of the early British administrators, this fact served to differentiate Bundelkhand from the country North of the Jumna, in which the mixed type prevailed, if it was not universal. As a matter of fact, in studying the Records, I have come across scarcely a single village in the Doab or Rohilkhand in which cultiva- tion was carried on only by the Brotherhood and the village servants, though I have found cases where the area held by other peasants was proportionately very small; ordinarily the peasants outside the Brotherhood were an important, if sometimes a subordinate, factor in agricul- tural production. The villages without a Brotherhood fall into two groups. In the first come the somewhat numerous cases of what

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