weekly markets of delhi.pptx

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1. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEEKLY HAATS The weekly market is an important institution in the economic structure of the Muria. Here, they sell the parts of the produce of the land and the gathered forest produce. It is the center of exchange of commodities with cash . The weekly markets form the most effective primary economic network in the district. They are held once a week at a given place and time. The traders visit the surrounding weekly markets all the six days in a week. There are in all 218 such markets throughout the district. In this way the markets inter-link the village producers with the primary economic networks of the district .

2. ... Tribals usually fix the price of their commodity to be sold by their own judgement and bargain with the trader till they are satisfied that they got amount as per their satisfaction. The traders are also aware of the addiction of Muria to colorful clothes and finery and lure them to buy it. For tribals the weekly market is a break in the monotony of daily life and fór traders, a good opportunity to make heavy profit by selling .

3. Markets are an important mechanism of regional integration, linking local communities that are often ecologically distinct, geographically separated, and specialized according to their technological or craft Haats may be defined as primary economic centers and can be treated as central places inter-locking certain spatial divisions within which the visitors come to buy and sell their goods (Agarwal, 1978). According to Sinha.(1968), the tribal weekly market can also be interpreted as an agent of cultural change. It is concluded that these weekly markets in tribal areas form a network of socio-cultural ties among the people of the hinterland

4. Not all the goods produced enter into the market - subsistence goods may never be marketed or only a small surplus portion may reach the market. At the same time, the 'non-market' functions of the market - ritual, social, political and ceremonial- are often of central importance - perhaps of more importance than the economic exchange itself.