peshgi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindustani पेशगी (peśgī) / پیشْگی (peśgī, “advance”).

Noun

peshgi (uncountable)

  1. (chiefly Pakistan, India) A form of debt bondage where an advance loan by the employer is to be repaid by bonded labour
    • 2010, Ali Khan, “Peshgi Without Bondage: Reconsidering the Links between Debt and Bonded Labour”, in Cultural Dynamics‎[1], volume 22, number 3:
      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.
    • 2017, Syed Abbas Ahsan, “Bonded Labour in Pakistan – Impact, Challenges and Role of Government”, in Social Science Research Network‎[2], page ii:
      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.
    • 2019, Dr Fraser Murray, Samanthi Theminimulle, Nida Mustaq, Shehryar Fazli, Modern Slavery in Pakistan: Final Report‎[3], page 8:
      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.
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