The Different Existing Patterns of Landholding System that Determine the Mode of Agrarian Change: A Case Study of Tangkhul Nagas

Abstract

This paper focuses on the way tribal communities conceptualised the importance of land, and the different type of landholding pattern system that has affected this agricultural community. There are various intricacies involved in defining the ownership of land: It includes who should own the land and to whom the land should be given out in the form of leasing out for a cultivation purpose? For example, the so called “clan land” should be confined to the clan not outside. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to look at various customs and rituals which have an influence upon the various kinds of landholding ownership system and to make a specific case study of Tangkhul Nagas, situated in the Ukhrul district of Manipur, Northeast India.