Meaning of peshgi | Babel Free

Definitions

A form of debt bondage where an advance loan by the employer is to be repaid by bonded labour

India, Pakistan, uncountable

Examples

“By drawing on an analysis of the football-stitching and bangle-making industries it disputes the notion that the presence of peshgi inevitably leads to a relationship of debt bondage between employer and workers.”

“The bonded labour system uses ‘peshgi’, a vernacular for an advance, to bind those in destitution to a life of servitude through a seemingly voluntary contract.”

“Peshgi is a system where the employer pays the prospective labourer a loan, which obliges the labourer to work for the employer for a period of time until the loan peshgi is repaid.”

CEFR level