From Status to Contract
Conditions of Contractual Labour in Madras Agriculture in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20179589 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Lakshmanan (0000-0001-6687-4251, Department of History, Presidency College, Chennai, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 135-156 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indian Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0376-9836 • E-ISSN: 0975-5977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/037698361003700107 |
| OpenAlex | W1992058174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
One of the predominant features of pre-capitalist relations in the nineteenth century India was that the existence of servitude came to be regulated by the Workmen’s Breach of Contract Act, 1859. The courts in colonial India interpreted the debt-bondage constituted through money wages in terms of master–servant. Its ramifications were extended beyond agriculture and into small workshops where contracts of service re- placing the pre-capitalist relations of bondage emerged. Though the movement of the ‘workmen’ and the pannials who approached the courts for relief from status to contract was notionally permitted by the courts, the real conditions of the vast majority of the pannials remained unchanged due to the nature of the colonial economy
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |