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020			_a9781108744737 : _cRs.695.00 _qpbk
040			_aIDSK _beng _cIDSK
041			_aeng _heng
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100	1		_aBreman, Jan _eauthor _94455
245	1	0	_aCapitalism, inequality and labour in India / _cJan Breman.
250			_aRestricted South Asia Edition.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2020.
300			_axiii, 286 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes references and index.
520			_aJan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency. Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.[Provided by publisher]
650		0	_2LCSH _aCapitalism _zIndia _94456
650		0	_2LCSH _aInequality _zIndia _92849
650		0	_2LCSH _aLabour _zIndia _94457
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