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MORSAND VILLAGE - A BROKEN CHAIN OF HISTORY.

A MICRO - STUDY.

(From the 19th Century the present day to 1947 A.D.)

CHAPTER - I.

INTRODUCTION:

Justification of this study-review of works-

importance of regional history- history of this village role of

and Migration (Prayaga, Mannara diha (Balliah),

Darbhanga, Brahmapur, Morsand.

CHAPTER - II.

SOCIAL LIFE:

Social divisions - different castes - social

aspect of feudalism - social significance of education -

mobility - social tension - position of women - education -

different samskaras of various castes, - jatakarma,

namakarana, and Upanayana, Vivaha and antyesti, etc.

CHAPTER - III.

ECONOMIC LIFE:

Nature of economy - agriculture - collective

and individual - different economic classes - castes and

economy - land ownership - land distribution without any

record - kinds of land (Zirat, Kasta, Bakasta, Balagana,

Gairamazarua, etc.) signs of gift economy - labourer

(touchable and untouchable) - wages - bonus (antiva)-

land revenue - land lord and ryots - transfer and

registration of land and its impacts - irrigation -

usury - economic aspects of feudalism.