@article{8af0a1a31dba4ee08bfda32d0e2037e0,
title = "Reproducing Inequality: Spirit Cults and Labor Relations in Colonial Eastern India",
author = "Gyan Prakash",
note = "Funding Information: This essay draws heavily from my unpublished dissertation entitled 'Production and the Reproduction of Bondage: Kamias and Maliks in South Bihar, c. 1300 to 1930s.' University of Pennsylvania, 1984. The research was carried out in 1981-82 and was supported by grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Discussions with David Ludden, Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, David Rudner, and Lee Cassanelli have helped greatly in clarifying my arguments. 1 Claude Meillasoux, in particular, has stressed the pivotal role of reproduction in production. See his 'From reproduction to production,' Economy and Society, 1, 1 (1972). Jack Goody's Production and Reproduction: A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain (Cambridge, 1976) draws correlations between the organization of domestic units and mode of agriculture without drawing the tight relationship that Meillasoux develops between the social reproduction of the production unit and the production organization. While these anthropologists tend to deal with those strategies of reproduction that relate to kin relations, this essay is concerned with the reproduction of relations between classes. 2JanBreman,PatronageandExploitation: EmergingAgrarianRelationsinSouthGujarat (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1974). 0026-749X/86/09070903S05.00 {\textcopyright} 1986 Cambridge University Press",
year = "1986",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1017/S0026749X00000822",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "20",
pages = "209--230",
journal = "Modern Asian Studies",
issn = "0026-749X",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "2",
}