Chapter 8
* This essay is based on interviews with the ‘intellectuals’ belonging to the Most Backward Classes, conducted in Jodhpur, Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh during 2003–04, and caste publications and pamphlets, besides the secondary sources.
1. See Moffat’s (1979) uncritical application of the Dumontian framework; Khare (2006) for its Indian critique; and Poonacha (2005) for a critique of Srinivas’s framework.
2. Recently, the challenge of ‘understanding the diversity of middle level castes’ before sociologists and researchers has been realized; see Jassal 2001.
3. This section is based on a printed appeal of the Anya Pichhda Varg (Mool), Arakshan Prakosth, Jodhpur. Interview conducted in Jodhpur, 4 January 2004.
4. Smarikas and
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