Primitive Accumulation As a Source of Feudal Power: A Case Study of Non-Tribal Migration into Tribal Villages in India.

This study addresses how Non-tribal communities, who are more inclined towards private property, migrated into trial societies, where common property is prevalent and accumulated land by all means, end up feudal lords of those villages. Telangana region of India has seen non-tribal influx into tribal areas in two phases. Part of the ‘Green Revolution’ Indian government implemented pro farmers’ policies in Coastal Andhra Pradesh. Because of these policies land tenancy rates in this area has increased enormously. For the peasant farmers in the coastal region it was beneficial to lease out their lands and migrate to rich soil areas of Godavari and Krishna valley of telangana and mimic the ‘green revolution’ for self (private) created incentives by using cheaper land, irrigation and labour resources. Even though they were small and medium peasants in their region when they migrated to tribal areas they established themselves as the dominant class of the society, mostly feudal. Their social background, dominant caste, helped them practice and establish their traditional caste structure to commit extra economic coercion.

The other migration took place in the aftermath of the occupation of Hyderabad state into India in 1948. Most of the small medium peasants from plain areas of Telangana migrated to tribal areas of the region. They were poor peasants with no means of production with the experience and practice of private property and accumulation. Initially tribal communities treated them equal and shared their resources including land and livestock with them. However these immigrant peasants turned common property into private property, accumulated land and alienated tribes from their means of production and looted them to be poor forever. The non-tribal peasants also got their non-tribal labour to help them cultivate these lands by using traditional vesti system and established traditional Hindu hierarchical societies.