TEMPLE ECONOMY: LAND OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN TAMILNADU

TEMPLE ECONOMY: LAND OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN TAMILNADU

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N. Selvaraj , N. Selvaraj

Keywords Temple economy, social stratification, caste and rural economy, land rights, Dalits.

Temples have had a central place as economic institutions than religious institutions in colonial era. It controlled huge endowment of lands, gold and money to maintain specified rituals in the name of donor of land, cost was incurred from the land which yielded income. It also provided a productive place to invest funds granted to the temple for the performance of services in the name of the donor of the money. The religious rituals sanction the land and economic rights. The land tenure system had been as follows: (1) crown lands (bhanddravada) for government ( 2) military service tenure(amaram) land held by local chieftains and tributary rulers (nayakas). (3) Brahmaddya lands were eleemosynary tenure owned by Brahmans; temples (devadana), and traditional educational institutions, or mathas (mathapura) and peasant proprietor tenure. There were religious privileged Zamindars, Inamdars, and mirasis who had right on land while the rest served as agricultural managers, tenants, cultivators and labouring class. The land alienation and transfer of agrarian land from privileged landmirasis to labours and subordinate groups in colonial era was due to law of rent and unpaid rent to revenue department. However, the depressed class had limited access to the preferential claim of land policy.

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"TEMPLE ECONOMY: LAND OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN TAMILNADU", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no.1335-1350, August-2022, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2208148.pdf

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