Occupational Castes in Dhādekī-Sālhāpūr : A North Indian Village (Ⅶ)

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  • Dhādekī-Sālhāpūr の「職業caste」 : 北インド農村の社会と生活（Ⅶ）
  • Dhadeki-Salhapurの「職業caste」(北インド農村の社会と生活-7-)
  • Dhadeki-Salhapur ノ ショクギョウ caste キタ インド

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8 occupational castes live in Dhadeki. All the households of Khatti (carpenters:4 households), Kumhar (potters:3) and Dhobi (washers:2) receive anaj (cereals, or cereals as periodical and settled payment) in return to their caste services. A few households of Julhai (weavers:15) and Nai (barbers:1) obtain unstable anaj partly following their traditional activities. Jinwar (13), Gosain (1) and Mussalman (17) show at best the fragments of their respective caste works for additional income. Caste service subsidiarity in Dhadeki life, as depicted in my former papers, is confirmed here by the observed minor or negligible share of traditional occcupation income in their household budget which is largely supported by crop payment at the rabi harvest. This situation is summed up as a disguised underemployment system in which these castes, following their nominal occupations in agricultural slack time, form a reservoir from which the harvesting labour is to be extracted. Their extended family tends to appear when the homestead space is limited, and the general preference is for the elementary family. An occupational caste frequently consists or consisted of only one household now or several decades back. The minimality resulted in the lack of kinship organization and in the instability of the caste service succession.

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人文科学論集 21: 11-24 (1987)

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