Sudhir KumarAIR 42 · CSE 2017 · 157 wordsTheir whole copy
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Indian agrarian system has come a long way. Processes like modernization, westernization, capitalism has led to drastic changes in overall agrarian system.
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Earlier agrarian system was mostly caste-based and jajmani relations based, where lower castes had an obligation to provide services in return of grains. The agrarian economy was based on subsistence, with land being considered as a source of pride and source of power.
But with Green Revolution, Panchayati Raj, globalization, Indian agrarian system is too seeing capitalistic based relationship of production. labourers are wage-based and not bonded. Peasants are not the owners, growth in "absentee landlords", as land has become a tradable commodity.
With pressure on land with population rise, there is growth of tenant farming as own land is proving less. The produce is being sold in markets.
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But, despite changes like increasing land-holding of lower and middle castes like Ahirs, Jats etc, India's agrarian system is very informal and far away from modernisation.