Urbanization and Social Change: A Study of a Rural Community on a Metropolitan Fringe

activities Administration agnatic agricultural Ahir households Arya Arya Samaj Backward Classes Badli Barber Bard-mendicant Basket-makers belonging bighas Brahmin brothers candidates cash gift cent Chaudhri Circle Panchayat clean castes commuters Congress consumption context crop cultivation Dara Singh disputes dominant caste earners economic Elections estate holders expenditure faction-party factors farmers fodder fringe Grain-parcher Gujjars Harijan hukka India invited Itinerant-traders jajmani Jan Sangh joint household jowar Kawar labour land land-owners latter leaders Leather-workers M. N. Srinivas maize male Mandal market-gardening maunds maximal lineages Merchant milch cattle milk modern Mughal Nawada nyota occasion organization Panchu faction Panchu faction-party Panchu panna panna party peon plots political Potter relations Religious-mendicant residents ritual rural selling significant splinter faction status sugarcane Sweepers Syaddar Singh Tihai faction Tihai faction-party tion urban employment urban jobs vegetable gardening Village Panchayat ward Weavers wedding wheat workers Yadavpur Zail Zaildar