Which traditional rural system involved hereditary service relationships between land-owning families and artisan/service castes?
Jajmani system
The Jajmani system was a traditional rural arrangement in which land-owning families (jajmans) had ongoing, hereditary relationships with families of artisans and service providers (kamins) who performed specific occupational services.
These service relationships were passed down across generations, distinguishing the Jajmani system from the Zamindari system, which was primarily about land revenue collection, and from the cooperative or panchayati systems, which are organisational and administrative structures.
This hereditary, occupation-based bond is the defining feature of the Jajmani system.
Important Questions from Society - Teaching
Which among the following Samskaras were pre-natal ?
(a) Garbhadhana
(b) Pumsavana
(c) Simantonnayana
(d) Sahadharma - Charini - Samyoga
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
Ghatiyantra was used in early medieval India for:
Match the revenue terms given in List I with those of modern connotations given in List II and choose the correct answer from the code given below.
List I
(Revenue Term)
List II
(Modern Connotation)
(a) Akhal (i) Cultivated and uncultivated land (b) Bud-o-nabud (ii) Stipends distinct from tax-free land grants (c) Idrarat (iii) Tax-free lands held by grant from the king (d) Imlak (iv) Barren land Which society destroys private ownership of means of production and in its place creates public ownership of means of production?
I. Socialist
II. Capitalist
