Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again: The Social History of Bondage and Neo-Bondage of Labour in India

by Jan Breman

Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past until the post-colonial present. Discussing when, why and how servitude originated on the tribal-peasant frontier in West India and was instituted in the rural landscape, this book draws on engagement in anthropological fieldwork from the 1960s onwards to offer a historical perspective on the collapse of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8195639267
• ISBN13: 9788195639267
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Tulika Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"