bargadar

Awarding title, so a bargadar could one day sell his land and move on, would have defeated the strategy.

Property Rights Drive Indian Politics Abheek Bhattacharya 2011

The CPIM theoreticians exaggerated this bargadar registration to such a height that it was even presented as the continuation of the course of the Great Santhal Rebellion!

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

Various researches have confirmed it that share cropping does not exceed more than 20% of the land and limited to paddy cultivation and a bargadar earns in a month as much as does a contract labourer in a factory.

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

But that the bargadar class remain CONFINED to land and cultivation may not be a progressive status for them in future.

Kafila 2009

I think what is lost in such a narrow debate is the larger issue of 'development' itself - are SEZs and capital-intensive industries the right WAY to industrialisation and poverty-alleviation at all? as long as we don't get to a democratic dialogue on development models, its no use blaming 'disturbance' on either the villagers or the CPM … the actual disease lies elsewhere! and such 'disturbances' will continue and the blame-game will also continue, unless such basic questions are faced and discussed in the larger public sphere, with all strata of people participating. or else, sections of people will undoubtedly feel left out / compromised and clashes will start again (so will the blame game). lastly, gangamitra is a bit too fast in drawing parallels between the land reforms and the current industrialisaton policy - there are actually contradictory. whereas the land reforms aimed to empower the 'bargadars' (or non-land owning class of farers), the present acqusition method relies on the land owning class and their willingness to part with land. it disempowers the bargadar, and does not draw such sections into a dialogue on 'development' models, or sustainable development alternatives.

Kafila 2009