Abstract
There are two types of landlord-peasant relationship in Iranian agriculture. In the first type, landowner leases out his land to tenants. Tenants, in this case, are able to cultivate their lands with whatever crops and methods they choose. On the other hand, in the second type, landowner divides his land into a number of plow-lands, on which he allots a certain number of cultivators. Cultivators have no choice what and how to cultivate the lands, but have to work the lands under the supervision of landowner.
There are various plow-land systems, making the second type diverse. Talebabad, a village near Tehran, is a village which a bone system, one of the plowland systems, is applied.
This paper aims to make clear the economic structure and the distinctive features of this type of villages, through the analysis of Talebabad, which is typical of a village of the bone plow-land system; furthermore, to throw light on the changes which have been taking place in this type of villages recently.
