Baluta system meaning

Baluta System Similar to the ayagar system, it was prevalent in western India and Deccan during the medieval period. Under this system a fixed annual share of each peasant family’s corn and garden produce, called baluta, was permanently assigned for the subsistence of about 12 village servants and artisans called balutadars (carpenter, blacksmith, potter, barber, wash-erman, shoemaker, rope-maker, mahar, etc.). They were not employed by individual peasant families (as under the jajmani system) but by the village as a whole and were expected to serve the villagers whenever required in their respective capacities fixed by their castes.