"peshgi" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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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