How the system worked ?- 9

....Therefore the cultural hegemony of Brahmanas, upholding of dharma by the kings, demilitarization, the mutilating system of justice, ostracization, Panchayats and the theory of previous life Karmas kept the Shudras and untouchables in their place and served to make the Varna dharma eternal. Any desire to rise up is killed by Karma theory and any actual action in such direction is punishable by Panchayats and kings.

Now we will see how the system worked as an economic unit. The Jajmani system is borrowed from the later Vedic period of Yajmans. The Yajmans were the Kshatriya patrons of the Brahmans. The Yajman or Jajman was the Kshatriya for whom the Brahman performed all the Yagyas and ritualistic ceremonies. The Jajman and the Brahman were tied personally to each other with generational ties. Once tied together the Jajman and the Brahman did not normally part company. The relationship continued for the generations altogether until some natural calamity occurred or when the patron or client became spatially separate due to some reasons.

This Jajmani system was also carried in the villages where the Jajman was the patron of village artisans also. The Jajmani system did the job of distribution of agriculture produce among the non-land owning classes. In other words they controlled the distribution of food and with it the lives of village people. There was no money transaction. The Jajman not only had the land but also an army of musclemen to help maintain the dharma in the society. These musclemen were the tillers on his land. They were ready to perpetrate violence on demilitarized village people. This provided the Shudras enough persuasions to fall in line. The muscle force, the social forces and the economic forces were really persuading which effectively prohibited the Shudra and untouchables from rebelling. This eliminated the use of frequent violence in the village. The subordination of low castes had become naturalized....