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Narratives of Kamayee/Dhanda (Income): Modes of Wages

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Yadav describes the various work/employment options available and how the work comes to them and what is the meaning of work for the Gonds. She discusses ethnographies of work of the Gonds and how they construct around their livelihood strategies around these work options. She questions the nature of this relationship. For this, she analyses the different types of household portfolios mapping their motives and aspirations and their economic circumstances. She shows how the Gond households navigate and negotiate with their household members for division of labour and to achieve autonomous lives and how that varies from household to household.

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Notes

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    I discuss this more in Chapter 6 on the state about how schooling is valued amongst the marginalised population drawing upon Froerer (2011) ethnography amongst the Hindu Oraons in Chhattisgarh.

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    Uxorilocal Households in Mahalapur In the village of Mahalapur, there are many (gharjamayees) move to their wives’ natal village and raise families there. Such living arrangement is a common strategy for food security: although they are landless in Mahalapur, they might have some landholding in their original village. For food security, they contribute towards the agricultural cost and sometimes can also care for their wives’ parents to reciprocate for the hospitality extended to build a house nearby the wives’ parent’s house.

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    The normative shift in the social role of women in India due to their economic contribution is only restricted to highly industrialised and urbanised areas like Mumbai where economic differentiation of work has helped women’s social roles to shift along class lines but not along gender or caste lines.

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    Sanskritisation in urban households is also associated with Westernisation where households move from joint to a more nuclear family and women’s work participation is allowed only in the formal economy and on farms sector. The practice of paying groom-price and veiling of the Gonds and other marginalised groups like tribal (ST) and Dalit (SC) women in India is a form of Sanskritisation.

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Yadav, S. (2018). Narratives of Kamayee/Dhanda (Income): Modes of Wages. In: Precarious Labour and Informal Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77971-3_5

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