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BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE
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PEDLARS
Pedlars in rural areas are the counterpart of hawkers in the urban areas. Pedlars are to the villages what hawkers are to the towns. The following extract throws a light on their role. " Below the village shopkeepers are the pedlars and hawkers who are generally Marvari and local Vanis, Telis, Kasars, and Shimpis. These men travel from village to village during the six or eight months of the fair season " [ Gazetteer of Bombay Presidency, Vol. XIX, Satara District, 1885.]
Their stock-in-trade includes a variety of commodities, such as groceries, fruits, ice-cream, vegetables, spices, ready-made clothes, sarets, tea leaves, bread, biscuits, sweetmeats, ayurvedic medicines, etc. They sell their goods on cash basis as well as against food-grains. Barter transactions are also prevalent. They purchase the goods from the nearby towns or bazar places in the district. They carry the goods on bicycles or in buses. Some of them carry head loads.
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