Sources of the seventeenth century refer to two kinds of peasants ?khud-kashta and pahi-kashta. The pahi-kashta were non-resident cultivators who belonged to some other village but cultivated lands elsewhere on a contractual basis. People became pahi-kashta either out of choice ?for example, when terms of revenue in a distant village were more favourable ?or out of compulsion ?for example, forced by economic distress after a famine.
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