Hiring of Labour by Poor Peasants

Ashok Rudra with the collaboration of Madan Mohan Mukhopadhya An interesting and important problem that arises in any attempt at working out a class division for the Indian peasantry is that the close association of smallness of holding and selling of labour power and largeness of holding and purchasing of labour power, postdated by the standard Marxist definition, which gives rise to the purchaser-seller relation between rich and poor peasants, does not hold in any clear fashion in many parts of India.