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In an economy based on agriculture, the ownership of land is
the key to survival and power. In most parts of the country,
the majority of the acreage is owned by a politically
dominant caste that is likely to be a middle-ranking one,
not a Brahmin one. However, the various regions still have
different traditions of land tenure and associated systems
of land taxation.
India has only recently seen the last of the rural serfs who
for centuries supplied much of the basic farm labor in some
parts of the country.
There are still numberless landless wage laborers, tenant
farmers, and landlords who rent out their extensive lands,
and rich peasants who work their own holdings.
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India has had many traders, transport agents, importers, and
exporters since the days of the Indus civilization four
thousand years ago. Market places have existed since that
time, and coinage has been in circulation among urban people
for 2500 years. |
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