The paper is concerned with the contemporary relevance of caste to agrarian capitalism and the relations of dependency and allegiance it fosters in a village of Andhra Pradesh. It deploys the method of village study to examine the twoway interaction between agrarian class and caste relations and the emerging rural-based informal nonfarm economy. It
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