Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again
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Labour bondage is discussed as a major feature of the peasant economies which have dominated the
subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded precolonial past until the postcolonial present.
Discussing when, why and how servitude originated on the tribal-peasant frontier in West India, the
research undertaken moved on from a historical perspective to investigating the collapse of
bondage by engagement in anthropological fieldwork from the 1960s onwards. The capitalist
economy which has taken shape does not allow for the transition to free labour. Because of lack of
employment and income the workforce at the bottom of the pile remains stuck in neo-bondage.