Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Medieval India: Peasants, Zamindars and the State

Question:
What is correct in respect of jajmani system?
Options:
system where artisans and individual peasant households entered into a mutually negotiated system of remuneration, most of the time goods for services.
a share of the harvest, or an allotment of land, cultivable wastes etc for the work rendered by people like artisans/labour.
system where artisans and individual peasant households entered into a mutually negotiated system of remuneration, most of the time part of harvest for services.
a share of the harvest, or an allotment of land, cultivable wastes etc for the work rendered by people like artisans/labour.
Correct Answer:
system where artisans and individual peasant households entered into a mutually negotiated system of remuneration, most of the time goods for services.
Explanation:
Another variant of this was a system where artisans and individual peasant households entered into a mutually negotiated system of remuneration, most of the time goods for services. The jajmani system or yajman system was an economic system most notably found in villages of India in which lower castes performed various functions for upper castes and received grain or other goods in return. It was an occupational division of labour involving a system of role-relationships that enabled villages to be mostly self-sufficient.