Veth (India), the Glossary
Veth (or Vethi or Vetti-chakiri, from Sanskrit visti), also known as begar (from Persian), was a system of forced labour practised in the Indian subcontinent, in which members of populace were compelled to perform unpaid work for the government.[1]
Table of Contents
17 relations: Brahmin, British Raj, Forced labour, Indian subcontinent, Jajmani system, Kayastha, Kingdom of Mewar, Maratha (caste), Maratha Confederacy, Persian language, Peshwa, Princely state, Ryot, Sanskrit, Saswad, Twashta Kasar, Unpaid work.
- Debt bondage in India
- Economy of British India
Brahmin
Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.
British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
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Forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Jajmani system
The jajmani system or yajman system was an economic system most notably found in villages of the Indian subcontinent in which lower castes performed various functions for upper castes and received grain or other goods in return.
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Kayastha
Kayastha or Kayasth denotes a cluster of disparate Indian communities broadly categorised by the regions of the Indian subcontinent in which they were traditionally locatedthe Chitraguptavanshi Kayasthas of North India, the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhus of Maharashtra, the Bengali Kayasthas of Bengal and Karanas of Odisha.
Kingdom of Mewar
The Kingdom of Mewar was an independent kingdom that existed in the Rajputana region of the Indian subcontinent and later became a major power in medieval India.
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Maratha (caste)
The Maratha caste is composed of 96 clans, originally formed in the earlier centuries from the amalgamation of families from the peasant (Kunbi), shepherd (Dhangar), blacksmith (Lohar), pastoral (Gavli), carpenter (Sutar), Bhandari, Thakar and Koli castes in Maharashtra.
See Veth (India) and Maratha (caste)
Maratha Confederacy
The Maratha Confederacy, also referred to as the Maratha Empire, was an early modern polity in the Indian subcontinent.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Peshwa
Peshwa was second highest office in the Maratha Confederacy, next in rank and prestige only to that of the Chhatrapati.
Princely state
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.
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Ryot
Ryot (alternatives: raiyat, rait or ravat) was a general economic term used throughout India for peasant cultivators but with variations in different provinces.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Saswad
Saswad is a municipal council located on South-Eastern corridor of Pune district of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Twashta Kasar
Twashta Kasar (also known as Tambat or Kasar) is a Hindu artisan caste of coppersmiths (tamrakar and tamta), predominantly residing in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
See Veth (India) and Twashta Kasar
Unpaid work
Unpaid labor or unpaid work is defined as labor or work that does not receive any direct remuneration.
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See also
Debt bondage in India
- 2019 Daman indigenous land clearing protests
- Bandhua Mukti Morcha
- Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act, 1976
- Chukri system
- Debt Conciliation Board
- Debt bondage in India
- India's Agriculture Development Problem: Lack of Access to Credit
- Indian indenture ships to Fiji
- Operation Barga
- Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra
- Sahajanand Saraswati
- Tebhaga movement
- Veth (India)
Economy of British India
- Economy of India under Company rule
- Economy of India under the British Raj
- Frank Lugard Brayne
- History of the salt tax in British India
- Inland Customs Line
- Kalo Bhari
- Malcolm Lyall Darling
- Muslin trade in Bengal
- Punjab Canal Colonies
- Veth (India)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veth_(India)
Also known as Begar, Begar, India, Vethbegar.