LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:10 October 2015
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Agrarian Slavery in Tamil Country during the Colonial Period

Dr. S. Kanagammal, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., M.TM.
V. Regina, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Part-time Research Scholar


Abstract

An attempt is made here to trace out the existence of slavery with special reference to Agrarian slaves in Tamil country during the colonial rule. For writing this research paper we collected sources, both primary and secondary, from the State archives and District libraries. We also referred to the proceedings of the Board of Revenue, Reports of the Collectors of nine districts in the Madras Presidency and the Newspaper reports as well as relevant books like Tanjore District Handbook (B.S. Baliga), History of Tinnevelly (R. Caldwell) and Bonded Labour in India (Kamble N.D.) The main aim of this paper is to describe the practice of slavery in agriculture in Tamilnadu during the British Colonial Period.

Keywords: Agrarian slavery, bonded labour in India, Madras Presidency, District Collectors, landlords, Tamil country.

Agrarian Slavery Prominent in Tamilnadu

In Tamilnadu, the slavery was prevalent in a more pronounced manner in the agricultural sector, till the beginning years of the 19th century. There were incidents of District Collectors exchanging correspondence with the Revenue Board and between themselves in regard to the restoration of the agrarian slaves who had fled from one land-lord to another. In course of time the British administrators looked at the suffering sympathetically and saw how this heinous practice made the depressed classes suffer and put an end to the slavery by enacting Slavery Abolition Act in 1843 and by the Indian Penal code XLV in 1861. By law, the agrarian slave, mostly belonging to depressed classes, got some relief, but their enslavement continued in practice.


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Dr. S. Kanagammal
Associate Professor in History
Sri Parasakthi College for Women
Courtallam 627 802
Tamilnadu
India
kanaga28a@gmail.com

V. Regina, M.A., M.Phil.
Research Scholar (Part t
ime) Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
Tirunelveli 627 012
Tamilnadu
India
reginavijay68@gmail.com

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