Caste, class, and democracy

Agricultural laborer American Folklore Society areas ascriptive basis Bendix Bhagu Brahmin caste ranking caste status caste system community influentials correlations cupational Development distribution dominant economic and political economic status educational and occupational EDUCATIONAL MOBILITY factors Fathers of Respondents Gerhard E greater high-caste higher higher-caste Ibid important increased Indian Village indicated influence intercaste INTERCORRELATIONS AMONG STRATIFICATION Jaiti and Ratu Kshatriya land landholding leaders leadership positions level of education Lipset low caste lower castes lower-caste families lower-caste persons M. N. Srinivas Marriott Max Weber middle-range castes nomic nonagricultural occupations occupational mobility occupational status ownership participation political power property status Reinhard Bendix RESPONDENTS IN JAITI ritual rank ritual status rural Sanskritization social class Social Mobility Social Stratification Social Structure society Sociology Sons of Respondents status inconsistency stratifica stratification system stratification variables Table tenants three villages tion tional traditional occupations urban and industrial Uttar Pradesh village panchayat Weber York zamindars