ABSTRACT
The preceding chapters studied communities and groups of peasants in tribal trust lands rather than individuals. In this way certain characteristics of master farmers and other peasant cultivators could be isolated. Yet, as Blake writes, ‘General Forms have their vitality in Particulars, and every Particular is a Man’. 1 This chapter, therefore, sets out in the form of case histories how individual master farmers and other peasant cultivators live, how they face their economic problems, and how they are caught up in, and even determined by, social and economic factors.
