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100			_aHasnain, Nadeem.
245		0	_aBonded for ever : a study of the Kolta-a Cis Himalayan tribe
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bHarnam Publications
260			_c1982
300			_a142 p.
520			_aThis book is about the life and fate of the Kolta-a menial caste group-living in abject poverty at the virtual mercy of high caste landlords, who exploite them like serfs and keep them bonded in slavery-like conditions. The exploitation is perpetuated by the nor mative structure of society in the remote mountain ranges of the cis-Himalayas. The subjugation of the Kolta is not only economic but also extends to holding the Kolta people as a corpus in bondage. This process begins as an economic transaction-a loan taken by a Kolta from a high caste landlord under the cultural and ecological conditions, results in servitude for not only the borro wer but his generations to come. This book brings out in graphic details the misery of the lives of the Kolta.
650			_aLabour economics
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