Human beings settled down from a life of nomads to become farmers but soon afterwards those who were entrusted arms to defend settlements from raiders, turned on their own and declared that all land belonged to them and therefore anybody who wants to till it must pay a share of crops to them, the share was to be decided by the “owners”. Life continued like this for thousands of years, exploitation of farmers being benign or blood-sucking depending on the ruler of the time. Of course some were engaged in directly serving the rulers themselves and some supported the farmers in the capacity of tool makers and clothiers etc. but since farmers themselves were left with hardly any surplus, they could pay the service providers hardly anything. The life was brutish and short. And if at all somebody accumulated some wealth, he would be looted. Just as there were cultivators and their service providers, their remained looters, always. In fact it is said that rulers themselves maintained gangs of looters, after skinning farmers more money needed to throw at concubines was looted from traders etc.
A Journey From Modinagar To Manesar
A Journey From Modinagar To Manesar
A Journey From Modinagar To Manesar
Human beings settled down from a life of nomads to become farmers but soon afterwards those who were entrusted arms to defend settlements from raiders, turned on their own and declared that all land belonged to them and therefore anybody who wants to till it must pay a share of crops to them, the share was to be decided by the “owners”. Life continued like this for thousands of years, exploitation of farmers being benign or blood-sucking depending on the ruler of the time. Of course some were engaged in directly serving the rulers themselves and some supported the farmers in the capacity of tool makers and clothiers etc. but since farmers themselves were left with hardly any surplus, they could pay the service providers hardly anything. The life was brutish and short. And if at all somebody accumulated some wealth, he would be looted. Just as there were cultivators and their service providers, their remained looters, always. In fact it is said that rulers themselves maintained gangs of looters, after skinning farmers more money needed to throw at concubines was looted from traders etc.