Tribal peasant strategy, market integration and state policies in North-East India

In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band no.124, Heft May 90

Abstract

The tribal peasant communities of India's north-east region, whose traditional economy of shifting agriculture rested on the principles of common, community property in land, reciprocity, sharing, labour co-operation and kinship and was largely self-sufficient, has been giving way to an economy of permanent, settled agriculture based on private property in land, personal income and wealth. (SJK)