Forced Labour in Maharastra in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Abstract

Though the system of forced or compulsory labour, wherein the government exercised force and limited the choice of the labour, has existed in India since the second century, its systematic study, covering some period and region of India has not yet been made. In case of Mahdrs.tra there are a few references and notes bearing on the historic system of forced labour. This paper is an attempt to study the