Abstract
From the hypothesis advanced by Miller (1954) that a highly ranked caste will display greater spatial range of intracaste relations than a lowly ranked one, Gould (1960) inferred that the former should establish marital alliances in more distant villages than the latter. He tested this inference in Sherupur, a north Indian village, and concluded that his data supported Miller's hypothesis. We have tested the hypothesis with data from Shanti Nagar, a village in northern India, and have found no statistically significant, direct correlation of marital distance and caste rank. When the data were examined from the point of view of two other components of socio-economic status, literacy and landownership, they indicated that the distance at which marriages were contracted varied inversely with regard to status.
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