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  • In Croatian it is informally called manki, coming from the local pronunciation of monkey.

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  • He cultivated two acres of land leased from its owner through a practice called manki - a sharecropping relation for rent-in-kind.

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  • Even with produce from both the manki and the patta land, Rajubhai barely managed to feed his large family.

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  • In many parts of Bihar and elsewhere in India, a sharecropping relation such as the manki contract is not an exit from but rather the first step into a bonded labour relation.40

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  • However, if the surrounding fields had a better harvest yield than the peasant who had entered into a manki contract, the sharecropper was bound to deliver the amount of rent-in-kind stipulated in the contract.

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  • Kurmi landowners usually never entered into manki contracts with the Dalits in Dumari, but Rajubhai was an exception to this rule.

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