The Basic Characteristics Of The Jajmani System In India
JAJMANI System
Introduction
The real India breathes in its villages.India is a land of villages with around 70 % of its population still residing in it .The basic characteristics of the Indian villages are:
a)Still practising their old age custom and traditions.
b)Illiteracy has still bound them into shackles which needs to be addressed in the indian village
c)Cate is still a social evil which is prevalent in the villages.
d)Caste based hierarchy still plays an important role in ones social conduct and Caste based hierarchy is dominant there.
As we know that the caste in the early days were economically dependent on one another as it was not possible …show more content…
the caste at the receiving end and the servicing caste was not merely contractual ,temporary but it was long term symbiotic relation and thus they both supported each other. Thus the system where a durable ,symbiotic relationship exists between the landowning families who are in need of the services, provided by those who provides them the goods and services is called as “JAJMANI SYSTEM”. The word Jajmani system has been derived from the Vedic term for patron, Yajmana,he is one who employs a Brahmin priest to perform puja and yajana. But as the time passed it was applied to everyone who hired the services of a person who willingly offered the same.As per Harold Gould those who are availing the services are the families of the upper“clean” caste and those who are rendering their services belonged to the lower “Unclean” …show more content…
This type of relationship was prevalent in almost all parts of the country and was called with different names like “Jajmani in North India,Bara Batuta in Maharashtra,Mirasi in Tamil Naduand Adade in Karnataka”.
Oscar Lewis defined” Jajmani system as a system in which people of a particular caste in the village is expected to provide specialized and standardized service which he is expert in to the people of the other caste”. Jajmani is basically a relationship between different families in a village rather than between the castes.In Jajmani system there exist a mutual give and take form of relationship,in which one of the families has to supply goods and services to the other in exchange for the same,this system has existed for ages.
Te person who renders his services or supply his goods are known as “Kamin or Kamgars” and the one who avail the services of the Kamin or Kamgars’s are called
Introduction
The real India breathes in its villages.India is a land of villages with around 70 % of its population still residing in it .The basic characteristics of the Indian villages are:
a)Still practising their old age custom and traditions.
b)Illiteracy has still bound them into shackles which needs to be addressed in the indian village
c)Cate is still a social evil which is prevalent in the villages.
d)Caste based hierarchy still plays an important role in ones social conduct and Caste based hierarchy is dominant there.
As we know that the caste in the early days were economically dependent on one another as it was not possible …show more content…
the caste at the receiving end and the servicing caste was not merely contractual ,temporary but it was long term symbiotic relation and thus they both supported each other. Thus the system where a durable ,symbiotic relationship exists between the landowning families who are in need of the services, provided by those who provides them the goods and services is called as “JAJMANI SYSTEM”. The word Jajmani system has been derived from the Vedic term for patron, Yajmana,he is one who employs a Brahmin priest to perform puja and yajana. But as the time passed it was applied to everyone who hired the services of a person who willingly offered the same.As per Harold Gould those who are availing the services are the families of the upper“clean” caste and those who are rendering their services belonged to the lower “Unclean” …show more content…
This type of relationship was prevalent in almost all parts of the country and was called with different names like “Jajmani in North India,Bara Batuta in Maharashtra,Mirasi in Tamil Naduand Adade in Karnataka”.
Oscar Lewis defined” Jajmani system as a system in which people of a particular caste in the village is expected to provide specialized and standardized service which he is expert in to the people of the other caste”. Jajmani is basically a relationship between different families in a village rather than between the castes.In Jajmani system there exist a mutual give and take form of relationship,in which one of the families has to supply goods and services to the other in exchange for the same,this system has existed for ages.
Te person who renders his services or supply his goods are known as “Kamin or Kamgars” and the one who avail the services of the Kamin or Kamgars’s are called