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2. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF
WEEKLY HAATS
• The weekly market is an important institution in the economic
structure of the Muria. Here, they sell the parts of the produce of
the land and the gathered forest produce. It is the center of
exchange of commodities with cash .
• The weekly markets form the most effective primary economic
network in the district. They are held once a week at a given place
and time. The traders visit the surrounding weekly markets all the
six days in a week. There are in all 218 such markets throughout the
district. In this way the markets inter-link the village producers with
the primary economic networks of the district.

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• Tribals usually fix the price of their commodity to be sold by their
own judgement and bargain with the trader till they are satisfied
that they got amount as per their satisfaction. The traders are also
aware of the addiction of Muria to colorful clothes and finery and
lure them to buy it. For tribals the weekly market is a break in the
monotony of daily life and fór traders, a good opportunity to make
heavy profit by selling .

6. • Markets are an important mechanism of regional integration, linking
local communities that are often ecologically distinct, geographically
separated, and specialized according to their technological or craft
• Haats may be defined as primary economic centers and can be
treated as central places inter-locking certain spatial divisions within
which the visitors come to buy and sell their goods (Agarwal, 1978).
According to Sinha.(1968), the tribal weekly market can also be
interpreted as an agent of cultural change. It is concluded that these
weekly markets in tribal areas form a network of socio-cultural ties
among the people of the hinterland

7. • Not all the goods produced enter into the market - subsistence
goods may never be marketed or only a small surplus portion may
reach the market. At the same time, the 'non-market' functions of
the market - ritual, social, political and ceremonial- are often of
central importance - perhaps of more importance than the
economic exchange itself.