Yaksh ChaudharyAIR 6 · CSE 2021 · 172 wordsTheir whole copy
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Daniel thorner divides agrarian population into many classes based on the criteria:
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- Rights of landownership
- type of income earned from the land (profit or rent)
- where this income is spent.
- Type of labor engaged in field. According to above criteria, he cameup with a three fold classification of indian agrarian population.
(1) Maliks According to Daniel Thurner, maliks are those who have landownership rights and collect rent from the rentiers or tenants. They don't put their own labor in the agri- field.
(2) Kisans : They own small patches of land. They put their own family labor for agri-production. They do not lease out their land but work on it for subsistence.
(3) Mazdurs : Mazdurs are landless laborers. These consist of artisans, agriculture labourers, sharecroppers etc. They put their labor on a field which they don't own.
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Hence Daniel Thurner divides Indian agriculture class into maliks, Kisan and Mazdur. Andre Betille advocates that ritual factors should also be considered with land ownership to divide Indian Agriculture classes.