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'''Bataidari system''' is a [[sharecropping]], an agricultural practice where a [[landowner]] lends his land to another who spends money and labour and the produce is shared by the owner and the tenant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/nitish-kumars-honourable-exit-brief-history-caste-politics.html |title=Nitish Kumar's Honourable Exit: A brief history of caste politics|publisher= Economic and Political Weekly|date= |access-date=2013-07-01}}</ref> it is prevalent in the state of [[Bihar]] in [[India]] where nearly 35% of cultivable land is under this system.<ref name=toi10>{{cite web|author=Arun Kumar |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-11/patna/28268572_1_cpi-ml-land-reforms-vijaykant-thakur |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102164848/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-11/patna/28268572_1_cpi-ml-land-reforms-vijaykant-thakur |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-11-02 |title=Land reforms, bataidari' tops Left agenda |date=2010-10-11 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-07-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-31/india/28291828_1_bjp-ministers-bihar-bjp-bjp-office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102165016/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-31/india/28291828_1_bjp-ministers-bihar-bjp-bjp-office |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-11-02 |title=Bihar BJP chief banks on Nitish for smooth seat-sharing talks |date=2010-05-31 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-07-01}}</ref><ref name="Singh2005">{{cite book|author=Sita Ram Singh|title=Land Reforms And Farm Diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uV-QYlm9FEQC&pg=PA81|access-date=1 July 2013|date=1 January 2005|publisher=APH Publishing|isbn=978-81-7648-838-9|pages=81–82}}</ref>

==History==
The system was prevalent during [[British Raj]] in many parts of India, including fertile plains of [[Punjab region|Punjab]], in other places the ''[[jotedar]]'' system was prevalent. Since more of the tenants were poor labourer they had to borrow money from money lenders for cultivation, this perpetuated the poverty cycle.<ref name="Chaudhuri.2008">{{cite book|author=Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri.|title=Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljmIJySEm4UC&pg=PA614|access-date=1 July 2013|year=2008|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-1688-5|pages=614–}}</ref> Though land reforms were implement across Bihar after independence through the Bataidari Act, but deemed exploitative against labourer and lead to violence, especially [[Caste-related violence in India|caste violence]] between labour communities and landowners.<ref name="Mishra1998">{{cite book|author=Anil Kant Mishra|title=Rural Tension In India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPWPT6Fr9QEC&pg=PA80|access-date=1 July 2013|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Discovery Publishing House|isbn=978-81-7141-416-1|pages=80–}}</ref><ref name="Prasad1998">{{cite book|author=Kedar Nath Prasad|title=Dimensions of Development: Agriculture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fYi8ynhlj1IC&pg=PA378|access-date=1 July 2013|date=1 January 1998|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-7022-741-0|pages=378–}}</ref> In the past, landforms have been demanded and even made a political plank in state assembly elections, especially by Left parties.<ref name=toi10/>

==See also==
* [[Feudalism in India]]

==References==
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[[Category:History of agriculture in India]]
[[Category:History of Bihar (1947–present)]]
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[[Category:Labour in India]]
[[Category:Indian feudalism]]
[[Category:History of Punjab]]
[[Category:Poverty in India]]
[[Category:Agriculture in Bihar]]

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