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A Sidelight on Social, Economic and Political Aspects of Kulakara Order
J. C. SIKDAR
The original communistic common household of Kulakara order determined a certain maximum size of the family community varying as a result of circumstances upto the late middle stage of Kulakara system.
At the stage of Kulakara system the grandeur and the limitation of the gentile order were that there was no place for rulers and the ruled, In internal affairs there was no distinction between rights and duties. The Kula did not split up into different classes, for the economic conditions reveal that the population was very thinly scattered; it was dense only in the habitat of the Kula.
"Division of labour was a pure and simple outgrowth of nature; it existed only between the two sexes."1 "The household was communistic, comprising several, and often many, families," as it is especially found on the North-West coast of America. The product collectively produced and used in common was common property. This kind of picture of social and economic condition is found at the first stage of Kulakarism which is well supported with the historical facts quoted above.
In the next stage of Kulakarism man domesticated animals, such as, cow, buffalo, etc., for his service and milk products, etc.
This account is also corroborated by the historical evidence in regard to economic conditions of Aryas, Semites and Turanians. "A
1 The Origin of the Family, etc., p. 155.
2
Ibid.
3 Ibid.
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