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ABBREVATIONS:
BC Backward Caste/Classes
MPP Mandal Praja Parishad (the middle tier of the Pcinehyai Raj
Madiga Reservations)
PUCL People’s Union for Civil Liberties, the country’s largest civil
liberties organisation
SC Scheduled Caste
SP Samajwadi Party
UP Uttar Pradesh
ACRONYMS
Dora Landlord
Gram Panchayat Village Panchayat the third tier of the Panchayat Raj system
Jagirdar Holder of land grant given for services rendered to the Nizam
(Muslim)
Kisan Peasant
Ryot Cultivator
Sangham Association
Wada locality
Bhakralok (lit) good people’ (Ben); Educated high – caste Bengali Hindus
Aryans.
superior Varnas
wine) producers.
Hindutva Hindu-ness: term popularized since 1920s by campaigners
varnas).
caste
Lower castes those relatively lower in the caste system, including Dalits.
Chandalas.
Scheduled tribes A list of indigenous tribal populations who are entitled to get the
Shudra The lowest of the order defined in the fourfold varna. The sudras
were the slaves who were forced to serve the higher varnas.
Upper castes Those occupying the first three major caste categories (thereby
Hindus.
.Vaisya third in the rank order of the fourfold varnas system: The modem
business community.
Varna Colour rank class (skt); the idealized fourfold scheme of ranked
scriptures.
GLOSSARY OF CASTES
them.
Golla Celia Cattle breeder and backward peasant caste: Golla are
Kammari Blacksmith
Kshatriya Ruler or warrior Varna; the second Varna in the four-fold Hindu
Varna system