Chapter 9
* Different versions of this essay were presented at a workshop organized by the Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS), Kathmandu, Nepal; University of Bergen, Norway; and at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Comments received from the participants have greatly helped in revising the essay.
1. It was for this reason that dalits in Punjab were openly against the Akali demand for a separate Punjabi subah during the 1960s, fearing that in the separate Punjabi subah, the local Jats would be much more powerful, which in turn would affect their position in the local economy and polity negatively (see Nayar 1966).
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