Kaivarttas are one of the major fishing communities of
Assam. The origin and migration of the Kaivarttas to the river island is still
shrouded with mystery. In the last few decades, the processes like
globalization of marketing, liberalization of different policies and
privatization of education have changed the life style of the Kaivarttas, not
only in an urban area but village too. Present study is undertaken into two
Kaivartta populated village in Majuli Island to understand the occupational
mobility among them. The concept “Occupational mobility” comes into existence
in the field of Sociology that refers the process of movement from one
occupational category to another. Now, Kaivarttas are engaged in different
areas occupations including government, private and entrepreneurial works. As
the occupation is closely interrelated with socio-economic and cultural
factors, therefore, it is important to make a study to understand their
adoption of new occupation in response to the process of social change. Primary
data are collected through structured interview schedule through survey whereas
Books, Journals, Government records and census are used as secondary data. It
has been observed that external forces that are creating barriers and forcing
the villagers to shift themselves to some other occupations i.e. low profit
margin of fish trading more particularly during summer seasons, dwindling of
sources of fish since most of beels and fisheries have been taken over by
Government and the terms and conditions of the Leaseholders (Mahalders) are not
satisfactory, negative attitude of society towards fish selling etc. The study
shows that most of the villagers have taken up new occupations rather than
fishing.
Author(s) Details:
Nabin Chandra Das,
187 No Chamaguri Koibartta LPS, Majuli, Assam, India.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RRAASS-V8/article/view/14257
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