Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this
ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political
economy from 1962 to 2017. When, in a remote past, tribal and
low-caste communities were attached to landowning households, their
lack of freedom was framed as subsistence-oriented dependency.
Breman argues that with colonial rule came the intrusion of
capitalism into India's agrarian economy, leading to a decline in
the idea of patronage in the relationship between bonded labour and
landowner. Instead, servitude was reshaped as indebtedness. As
labour became transformed into a commodity, peasant workers were
increasingly pushed out of agriculture and the village but remained
adrift in the wider economy. This footloose workforce is subjected
to exploitation when their labour power is required and is left in
a state of exclusion when it is surplus to demand. The outcome is
progressive inequality that is thoroughly capitalist in nature.
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